Defragmenting a database requires free disk space equal to 110 percent of the size of the database being processed.
1. In Exchange System Manager, right-click the information store that you want to defragment, and then click Dismount Store.
2. At the command prompt, change to the Exchsrvr\Bin folder, and then type the eseutil /d command, a database switch, and any options that you want to use.
For example, the following command runs the standard defragmentation utility on a mailbox store database:
C:\program files\exchsrvr\bin> eseutil /d c:\progra~1\exchsrvr\mdbdata\priv1.edb
Use the following database switch to run Eseutil defragmentation on a specific database:
eseutil /d <database_name> [options]
/b<database> Make a backup copy under the specified name
/t<database> Set the temporary database name (the default is
Tempdfrg.edb)
/s<file> Set the streaming file name (the default is NONE)
/f<file> Set the temporary streaming file name (the default
is Tempdfrg.stm)
/p Preserve the temporary database (in other words,
do not instate)
/o Suppress logo
/i Do not defragment streaming file