All,
After doing a windows disk defrag analysis on an exchange partition I found:
Volume size: 45 Gb
Percent free space: 54%
Total frag: 49%
File frag: 98%
Pagefile has no frags
MFT has 2 frags
The two most fragmented files are the MDBDATA\ 15.6 Gb .edb and 4.5 Gb .stm with 2,000 frags and 645 respectively.
Question being, what steps are necessary to prepare exchange for proper online or offline defrags, and what would you recommend be my first step in trying to repair the state of this partition?
I’ve read both positive and negative things about offline defrag using eseutil, and also have heard that running windows defrag on an exchange database can be harmful because of its intensive I/O process.
After doing a windows disk defrag analysis on an exchange partition I found:
Volume size: 45 Gb
Percent free space: 54%
Total frag: 49%
File frag: 98%
Pagefile has no frags
MFT has 2 frags
The two most fragmented files are the MDBDATA\ 15.6 Gb .edb and 4.5 Gb .stm with 2,000 frags and 645 respectively.
Question being, what steps are necessary to prepare exchange for proper online or offline defrags, and what would you recommend be my first step in trying to repair the state of this partition?
I’ve read both positive and negative things about offline defrag using eseutil, and also have heard that running windows defrag on an exchange database can be harmful because of its intensive I/O process.