Re: win2k3 c: drive too small!!

From: Julio McTavish (julio_at_nospam.net)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 19:30:58 -0400

It sounds like someone was trained under NT4. 4GB primary, hehe I love
those. :)

Moving your swap file is a good place to make alot of room quickly and
safely. A lot of people recommend moving it to a different parition anyway.
Usually only good if it is a seperate physical drive. With a hardware
RAID-5 the odds are your disks and bus are plenty fast, so where ever you
can find room it's your friend. :)

If your RAM count is huge, then it'll free up more disk space. May I suggest
checking how the person who set up the 4GB partition set up the swapfile?
My concern is you have like 4GB of RAM set up by the ol' "swapfile=1.5-2x
RAM" type of thinking. :)

If you're logical disks in Windows are set to the Basic type (which they
hopefully are since you have a hardware RAID), buy yourself a copy of
Parition Magic, again, it's your friend, it's easy as pie to resize Basic
FAT, NTFS, etc.

If they are all dynamic Partition Magic is useless.

If they are dynamic, and you can get some unallocated disk space avilable,
you can expand the c: drive by spanning it with the free space (say, another
hard drive, outside of the RAID, perhaps two in their own mirror, lame but
works).

Extending is built into Windows, known as dynamic disks, it's not very
'dynamic' tho, since you currently can't shrink exisitng partitions to make
space (not that I've figured out).

Ok enough typing. Good luck.

"Joel" <jwolfe(removethis)@digimarc.com> wrote in message
news:%23SDv6u%23qEHA.1964@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> It has come to my attention that some of our windows 2003 servers have
> gone
> into production with too small of a c: drive partition. The partition for
> the os was created with only 4 gb of space. There is plenty of space on
> other partitions, however. The servers are configured with hardware RAID
> 5.
>
> I can see that there is between 200 and 300 MB of free space on c: I am
> anticipating problems down the road because of this. The servers are
> being
> used as domain controllers, file servers, and web servers (running
> apache).
>
> Short of reinstalling everything, is there anything we can do to fix this?
> I am considering the option of moving the swap file onto one of the other
> partitions, but is this a safe operation?
>
> Thanks, Joel
>
>

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