Re: win2k3 c: drive too small!!
From: Joel (jwolfe(removethis)_at_digimarc.com)
Date: 10/07/04
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 12:56:23 -0400
Thanks guys!! All your replies were very helpful. I have begun moving the
swap files and am happy to say that everybody is ok.
I will also look into using partition magic.
Gratefully, Joel
"Julio McTavish" <julio@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:O43PIy$qEHA.3976@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> 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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