Crealpte a new mailbox store and defrag

[abhi1024]

We are currently running Exchange 2003(Enterprise Edition) in our organization. We just have one Store Group with the database being on one volume(C and transaction logs on the other (E. We are running out of space on C drive and I want to create a seperate data store on E
Following are the issues I am not sure of.
When I create a new mailbox store, where do I put the transaction log files??
Also when I am done creating the data store ,after moving some mailboxes to this new data store, can I defrag the old one ?? When I do then,would all users lose access to their emails or just the users that have mailboxes configured in the store I am running the defrag on??

Please help
Thanks
Abhishek.

 

[MarkArnold]

If you want to put a data store on E:\ then you have to create a new Storage Group. Put those logs on C:\ and the store on E:\. Mind you, there's no point unless C and E are separate physical disks. If they're not it's irrelevant. Just make sure that they are on separate disks wherever possible.
As for defragging - NO. Never. Move all the mailboxes from old store to new store then dismount the old store. Find and delete the EDB and STM files then remount the store (There will be a warning or two, just accept them).