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Defragmenting

Last post 11-13-2005, 8:43 PM by Ben Hoffman. 1 replies.
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  •  11-12-2005, 7:33 PM 86

    Defragmenting

    Hi I have heard that you should not do a normal Defrag on the drive the Exchange is stored on.

    Is this true, if so what should you defrag the drive with is their any specail tip you could give a first timer

    Thanks


    MG Gold Coast (MCP)
  •  11-13-2005, 8:43 PM 87 in reply to 86

    Cool [H] Re: Defragmenting

    Hi

    Have a look at the following blog post from the Exchange Server Team:
    http://blogs.technet.com/exchange/archive/2004/10/25/247342.aspx

    The blog post basically recomends against, doing a file level defrag on a volume that contain either an information store/s or transaction log/s. If for any reason you need to do a file level defrag of a volume which contains either Information store/s, or transaction log/s then move these files to another physical volume, perform the file level defrag then move back.

    If you need to perform a defrag of the information store have a look at the following, MS articles:
    http://support.microsoft.com/?id=328804
    http://support.microsoft.com/?id=192185

    Regards


    Ben Hoffman
    Microsoft MVP - Windows Server System Exchange
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