Hi,
I'm running NT 4.0 (SP6a) with Exchange 5.5.
When I run Diskeeper to defrag the hard drives on the server, the drive with all of our Exchange users is fairly heavily fragmented even after defrag is finished. I am wondering if all the fragmented files are from past users deleted from the server or something like that. I'm wondering if there's anyway to recover the many file fragments I'm seeing as diskeeper doesn't seem to be able to do much with them. As I mentioned, my theory is that the fragments are leftovers from past users. I've heard that Exchange has it's own clean up utility (esutil, or something like that)for cleaning the lost fragments. Is this right? and if so, are there any precautions I should be aware of before running it? I would really like to recover the disk space I see these files occupying.
Thanks for your advice.
I'm running NT 4.0 (SP6a) with Exchange 5.5.
When I run Diskeeper to defrag the hard drives on the server, the drive with all of our Exchange users is fairly heavily fragmented even after defrag is finished. I am wondering if all the fragmented files are from past users deleted from the server or something like that. I'm wondering if there's anyway to recover the many file fragments I'm seeing as diskeeper doesn't seem to be able to do much with them. As I mentioned, my theory is that the fragments are leftovers from past users. I've heard that Exchange has it's own clean up utility (esutil, or something like that)for cleaning the lost fragments. Is this right? and if so, are there any precautions I should be aware of before running it? I would really like to recover the disk space I see these files occupying.
Thanks for your advice.