Re: Domain Controller Disk Partitions

From: Chriss3 [MVP] (noSpamHere_at_chrisse.se)
Date: 01/05/05 

Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:48:34 +0100

I recommend you to place the SYSVOL share at the operative system drive, and
place the database and the transaction logfiles on the separate drive
instead. 

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"panther3" <panther3@discussions.microsoft.com> skrev i meddelandet 
news:6BE16A76-3297-44CF-9280-0222531F59D1@microsoft.com...
> we are not so concenred with performance at this stage just putting 
> together
> a recommend dc spec for our sites, we have two pysical scsi disks and 
> raid1,
> I think we will go with a c: partition of 7-10GB and the remainder of the
> disk approx 20GB to d: with sysvol moved to d:
>
>
> "Jimmy Andersson [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> If you thinking about Perf gains you won't get anything useful unless you
>> have separate spindles.
>>
>> Regards,
>> /Jimmy
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>> Jimmy Andersson, Q Advice AB
>> Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
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>>
>> "panther3" <panther3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:D9B5BF8E-1684-47F0-AAA4-847DF4525641@microsoft.com...
>> > Is there any need to have more than one disk partition for a domain
>> > controller, ie: should we use the entire disk as c: or should we have a 
>> > c:
>> > and d: partition? thanks in advance
>>
>>
>>

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