Mailbox deleted, but no space increase

[ITdude]

Hi,

I deleted many mailboxes equaling about 1 gig of data. The mailboxes have disappeared, but the size of the private information store is still the same. Its been a month now and the size is the same. My delete items retention is set at 2 days. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

 

[Maruis]

Is your auto defrag on? Hope this Helps

Maruis
"I sleep at home not on my Job!"

 

[Chasey]

To free the disk space up on the drive you need to perform an offline defrag of the Private Information Store.
If you take a look in Technet at the ESEUTIL command.
Be warned this does involve downtime and can take a while to finish.

 

[Zelandakh]

The way to do this is:

Stop all Exchange services.
Go to cmd prompt

cd /exchsrvr/bin
eseutil /d /ispriv

But you should start off by doing eseutil /? to check what command line switches you need....

 

[CoopTech]

ITDude - Here's the info you need:

Search for a thread named "Offline defrag on pub.edb" with some Phat posts by ShackDaddy. It's a cookbook for what you need to do on your Priv.edb. I did it last night and reclaimed about 5 GB of disk space.

It's practically a no brainer if you PREPARE.

Good Luck!

 

[swp13]

True.
Priv will not shrink until you do an offline defrag. If you look for a MSPriv event #1221 in apps event log it will tell you how much free space you have inside the priv.