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How can I tell how much free space I have in my database?

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Joel Stidley Posted: 06-21-2006 4:56 PM

If you have defaults set, database maintenance will run every morning between 1am and 5am. After this maintenance runs you will see an event in the application log. This will be a 1221 event and will detail how much space is in this database.

       Event: 1221  

       Source: MSExchangeIS Public

       Type: Information   

       Category: General   

       Description:

     The database "[StorageGroup]\[MailboxStore] ([ServerName])" has

     [xxx] megabytes of free space after online defragmentation has terminated.

You could also dismount the store in question and run ESEUTIL /MS Database.edb. 

If you aren't getting this event in your event log on a consistant basis (at the very least once a week) it might indicate that either maintenance isn't running long enough or at all.  You should check the properties of the store and adjust the maintenance window as needed.

- Joel

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