Re: running out of disk space

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From: Paul Lynch (paul.lynch_at_nospam.com)
Date: 05/25/04


Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:25:03 +0100

On Tue, 25 May 2004 11:42:41 GMT, "Carroll" <unknown@noplace.com>
wrote:

>Everything to do with IIS...
Not really. Its a disk management issue. IIS doesn't do disk
management, its a web server.

>It is strongly suggested that you move your entire site(s) to the second
>harddrive so that the extra work is done on the second drive instead of your
>O/S drive. You should see an increase in speed of access to your site(s),
>and you won't need any virtual directories. You should partition your
>second harddrive and move your Page file to the second drive and put it in
>it's own partition, depending on the size of your Page File and the amount
>of Ram you have.

Refer to this KB article for details on how to extend a volume :

Restrictions on Extending or Spanning Simple Volumes on Dynamic Disks
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=225551

Regards,

Paul Lynch
MCSE



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