Re: Delete Mail Stores to free up space

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On Mar 3, 2:47 pm, "Mark Arnold [MVP]" <m...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:29:15 -0800 (PST), keith.plaisa...@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:





Good Morning,

We currently have a bunch of mailboxes that were used by a total of
about 30 employees. We are also having an issue with disk space
getting low on our Exchange server. While we are plannning on
expanding the RAID to see (2) more physical disks, I wanted to
temporarily free some space up by deleting all of the old mailboxes.

I went into System Manager and right-clicked on the mailbox and
selected "Exachange Tasks". I went on in the process and chose the
Delete Mailbox function. The Exchange Task Wizard came back and stated
it deleted the mailboxes successfully but I do not have any of the
space freed up on the partition. Does anyone know why this is
happening? I deleted roughly 30 mailboxers which should have given me
at least 12-15 GB of much needed space but to no avail. Does anyone
know why this could have happened? I am about 3 days from expanding
the array and I need ever MB possible in the meantime.

Please let me know.

thanks,

You do not clear up space on the disk by deleting the mailboxes. WHat
you would need to do is to do an eseutil with the /d switch. However,
this is very rarely recommended as it's generally regarded as utterly
pointless.
Since you have deleted mailboxes you will see event id 1221 and inside
that you will see a number. That will be the amount of mail that you
can add to the server before the database file starts to grow again.
In short, your database is as big as it's going to get for a while.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

What other suggestions would you have to termporarily free up space on
the database? We only have 2.75 GB free and need at least 2 more days
before we can get the other (2) physical disks added to our (1)
logical disk.

Thanks for your help!
.

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