Pre IS defrag question 1

[hrswift]

What should I do before I do an offline defrag on my private information store? Exchange 2003

Thanks

 

[N0ktar]

Why are you defraging?

 

[hrswift]

350 revolving employees, 58gig on a 67gig drive. Running out of space.

 

[N0ktar]

You need a lot more room to complete an offline defrag though, this is because exchange needs to create a new database which is a copy of the existing one, defragmentation requires free disk space equal to that of the database (or more like 110% of free space). If you have a second drive you should be OK, use it for defrag, just make sure you have a good backup and dismount the database before you proceed.

 

[hrswift]

Thanks. I found a an article that really sheds light.

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-ISINTEG-ESEUTIL.html