Defragmenting H:, Q:, and other store/Storage group drives

#1 08-20-2008, 02:22 PM

All,

I remember reading way back that with Antivirus you want to not scan certain
drives on Exchange. Does the same thing apply for Defragmentation of drives.

We are running Exchange 2000 and have 3 data drives, (F, H and G), and
quorum, Q. Is there any problem with defragementing those drives using the
Windows 2000 defragmentation tool?

if so, is there a way around it to deframent specific parts of a drive?

Thanks in advanace.
Gordon

#2 08-20-2008, 06:05 PM

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:22:31 -0700, Gordon
<Gordon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>All,
>
>I remember reading way back that with Antivirus you want to not scan certain
>drives on Exchange. Does the same thing apply for Defragmentation of drives.
>
>We are running Exchange 2000 and have 3 data drives, (F, H and G), and
>quorum, Q. Is there any problem with defragementing those drives using the
>Windows 2000 defragmentation tool?
>
>if so, is there a way around it to deframent specific parts of a drive?
>
>Thanks in advanace.
>Gordon
You should never need to defragment the place on which the Exchange
stores reside. Why is it you think you need to? Suffering performance
problems or something?

#3 08-21-2008, 08:42 AM

When looking at the drive with MS Disk defragmenter, it is 95% fragmented and
if I add it up, 80% of that is STM and EDB files.

The Exchange server runs maintenance and defragments, but the drive itself
is fragmented.

"Mark Arnold [MVP]" wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:22:31 -0700, Gordon
> <Gordon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >All,
> >
> >I remember reading way back that with Antivirus you want to not scan certain
> >drives on Exchange. Does the same thing apply for Defragmentation of drives.
> >
> >We are running Exchange 2000 and have 3 data drives, (F, H and G), and
> >quorum, Q. Is there any problem with defragementing those drives using the
> >Windows 2000 defragmentation tool?
> >
> >if so, is there a way around it to deframent specific parts of a drive?
> >
> >Thanks in advanace.
> >Gordon
> You should never need to defragment the place on which the Exchange
> stores reside. Why is it you think you need to? Suffering performance
> problems or something?
>

#4 08-21-2008, 10:02 PM

Unless you are suffering from noticeable performance hits you
shouldn't bother.
If you are then backup the Exchange (online). Then backup the disk
with the Exchang eservices offline and then defrag normally.

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