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Exchange 2003 Database maintenance

I have run to 5GB left on my partition for our exchange server and the store is dismounting, I can re-mount, but seems to be reoccurring issue. First is there a setting in exchange that is making this occur? And second I have deleted two somewhat large mailboxes and was wondering what I can do to have the database recognize these two mailboxes are gone and cleanup and possibly shrink the exchange database.

Or any other utilities I can run to help lower the size...

Mestha

Free space isn't the issue.
How large is the store? (That is the combination of the priv.edb and priv.stm files). Exchange 2003 SP2 by default has an 18gb limit, which can be increased to 75gb via a registry change. The fact that you can remount the database would indicate you have hit the limit.

The size is reported in the event viewer at 5am by default.

Simon.

nick_kessler

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Simon,
Priv1.edb is 27GB Priv1.stm is 13GB. Is there another place I can look, I checked event log around 5am, but nothing clearly states what size of DB is...

nick_kessler

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Strange thing is it dismounted around 2:34pm

I got this first.
The MTA is terminating because the disk where MTADATA is located has less than 10MB of space, or an error occurred while trying to check for free space on the disk. If disk space is low, free up some disk space and restart the MTA. Windows 2000 Error code returned: 112 (non-zero indicates an error while checking for free space) [BASE IL OPERATOR 17] (16)

Then this
The Microsoft Exchange Information Store database "First Storage Group\Public Folder Store (MAIL)" was stopped.

But I clearly see 5GB of storage left on server...

jdera

Your best bet is to use eseutil. Check out:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/23111069/ESEUTIL-for-offline-defrag.html

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Mestha

If it was the limit on the store that was the problem then you would see event ID 1216 logged immediately before.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912375

However this looks like a straight disk space issue.
Do you have more than one drive? Do all of the drives have space?
Check that the system location on the properties of the storage group is pointing to a valid system.

ESEUTIL is not going to help here because you haven't got enough space to defrag the drive. I also don't think that forcing online maintenance to fire is going to help, because you are a long way under the 75gb database limit (even if you don't have 75gb of disk space). This is something else.

Simon.

jawad1481

HI!
i ahve clearly mentioned that the offline defrag can help in shrinking the database.

and i know that you dont have enough space on the hard drive.

thats way i suggested in running the offline defrag on another server.

i would suggest MESTHA not to pin point in others suggestions, if you have any comments please paste so that we could assist the writer(nick).

jawad1481

HI!

IS your issue resolved ? please let me know if you need any help.

Thanks.

Jawad.