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by ccthompson

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Got a problem, that I think will be fixed if I use eseutil to defrag the exchange database, but I wanted to ask a few of you guys and gals to get your thoughts. I have A Dell server that has 3 different physical drives, RAID 5, and 3 logical drives:

C: Windows and common installtions like adobe.

E: Exchange Drive(Only exchange and files installed by exchange)

F: User Drive: Just a large share used by the users of the network.

OK, the "C" and "F" drives are ok, but the "E" drive shows that there is only 455MB left on the drive, I figured a lot of built up exchange log files, but when i go into the folder view(hidden files are viewable) and I select all the folders (a total of 3) right click and go to properties, i have a total of 3GBs. Anyone got any ideas of this, does exchange 2003 reserve hard drive space for the database? Do you think the exchange defrag tool (eseutil) will fix it?

Thanks for your opinion!

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by p.j.hutchison

Eseutil may free up some space, but it will fill up again later. How big is drive E?
Are you doing regular backups of the Exchange database and logs? A regular backup will allow Exchange to delete the logs once they are committed to the database. Never delete any logs manually or else the database will no longer mount.

by ccthompson

Thanks for the reply. The drive is 48GB, and it was showing as 455MB free, which was no where near close. I restarted the server and no its showing that 45GB are free, which is right.

I have no idea why that happened, It has been a while since ive restarted this server, about 2 months, but even when I tried to clear and temp files it said there was only a few. Im stumped, but at least its reading it better now.

Thanks again!

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