Question : Problem: Stopping an Exchange eseutil /d defrag

Hi All
I've done a succesfull eseutil /p repair on my 56GB Mail Store. It only took like 19hrs... now I'm really strapped for time, because people need their email. I've started the defrag but quickly calculated that it'll take an hour for every 10%.
Can I safely stop the defrag mid-way and mount the store to start recovering mailboxes? Or should I just apologize and expect the worst (from management)...

Answer : Problem: Stopping an Exchange eseutil /d defrag

The offline defrag won't actually "touch" the original database file, rather it creates a new one and re-constructs the database there. Technically then, you should be able to cancel it and remount the database.

(quote from MS site)
Defragments the database offline but leaves the new, defragmented database in the temporary location with or without overwriting the original database. This mode reduces the gross size on the disk of the database (.edb) by discarding most empty pages and by rebuilding indexes.