Eseutil Defrag Errors

[ctjohnson]

I attempted to use eseutil to compact/defrag using eseutil. I have Exchange 2ksp3 installed on the C drive, with the OS. The d drive has the priv1.edb.

I have two questions:
1) The C drive and the M drive have the same statistics for used/remaining space. What does this mean? If I have the actual edb on the d drive, why does the M drive mirror the OS/Application drive?

2) The defraging operation failed with a "no free space" error when the C drive filled up. I ran esetul from C:\program files\exchsrv\bin, and pointed to the data file in d:\mdbdata\. It seemed to put the new copy/temp copy in C:\Program Files\Exchsrv\bin. Is there a way to specify the location I want the temp file in? There's no room on the C drive, and I want it to be on D, the same place the edb is.

Finally, is the fact that the M drive seems to mirror the C drive going to be a problem in the future as I get more mail and the private store grows? I thought by moving the priv1.edb to the d drive, all data would be stored in that location. Am I wrong? Why does the amount of space on the C drive factor into this at all?

Thanks for any help at all on this!

 

[ctjohnson]

Correction: "I attempted to use eseutil to compact/defrag priv.edb."

 

[jakesups]

don't run ESEUTIL from the C: drive.
c:
CD\program files\exchsrvr\bin
d:
cd exchsrvr\mdbdata
c:eseutil /d priv.edb

Hope that helps.

 

[MarkSe]

I think the problem you were hitting here is that the offline defrag requires 110% disk space as a new store is created during the process... (the data is then moved into the new store).

With regards to having limited space on C: you can point where you want the temp store to be created using /t this is documented in the following KB.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;192185

Mark

 

[jsd2003]

And yes, you can specify another drive on which to put the temporary files created during defrag.

Do not touch the M drive. Forget you ever saw it. Turn around and walk away.