"De-Compress" a NTFS drive 1

[DanIT]

A server has Exchange running on it, with the logs and DB on a drive that is compressed. I feel strongly that it may be causing a lot of delays, so I want to remove the compression on the drive.

Has anyone done this? I am pretty sure it doesn't cause data loss, but would like a second opinion. The drive has 25 Gb space on it free; we're using only about 6 Gb.

Any feedback would be great.

Dan

 

[SteelBurner]

Hi Dan,

did the same about two weeks ago - with no data loss.
Just took some time to "de-compress" Let it run over night might be a good idea.

If you're in doubt, make sure you have a fresh backup...

SteelBurner

 

[DanIT]

Was yours an Exchange server?

 

[SteelBurner]

Hi Dan,

it's still !

SteelBurner

 

[DanIT]

Thank you for your help! I'll do it tonight.

 

[DanIT]

One more question: Did you have to bring your exchange services down for that?

 

[SteelBurner]

No need to do that.

 

[DanIT]

It worked; THANKS!

I had to bring down Exchange because it wouldn't change the attributes for the databases with it up. But it worked.

It took about 3 hours for about 8 Gb database and other files.

Dan

 

[SteelBurner]

Hi Dan,

just to let me know: Is it Exchange 2000 you are running? Which SP is applied?

SteelBurner

 

[DanIT]

No, 5.5 SP4 on NT4.0 SP6.