Priv1.edb is to large also after a defrag of the store....

what bersion of exchange? 2000? Standard or Enterprise?

Check this MS article.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=828070

Also, check this out:

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Public_Folders_Maximize_Exchange.html

mortenhem,

How did you defrag the database? Online or offline? Offline can release more space than online.

I dismounted the store and then I runed "c:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\BIN\eseutil" /d E:\exchsrvr\MDBDATA\priv1.edb /t E:\exchsrvr\MDBDATA\tempdfrg.edb

The version is Exchange 2003 Enterprise...

From msexchange.org

"Take a look in the Exchange System Manager under Servers->"name"->First Storage Group->Mailbox Store->Mailboxes and see which mailbox is growing. That might give you a clue why the priv1.edb is growing. If you need you can export data from the database store using Exmerge. You might want to take a look at these articles for some more info on common issues with Exmerge http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=322312 and http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823143. Also take a look at http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/MF013.html for a tutorial on how to use it. After that run an offline defrag to reclaim disk space, see e.g. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=328804 or http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;192185 for instructions."

I have looked in "Exchange System Manager under Servers->"name"->First Storage Group->Mailbox Store->Mailboxes" and then I exported the data and imported it to Excel... all the mailboxes size is 25 GB, and as I said the priv1.edb is physical 47 GB...
Before the offline defrag the priv1.edb was 59 GB.