Re: Increase 2003 boot drive

Again, I ask why? Fragmentation is not a valid reason.
If your swap file is growing dynamically you didn't design the system
corectly.
Either you need more ram, or you need to manually increase the size of the
file so that dynamic expanding doesn't occur.



"Martin P. Hellwig" wrote:

> Manny Borges wrote:
> <cut>
> >
> > 1) put page file on second partition or better yet a seperate disk. *Myth*
> > spreading the page file over multiple partitions increases performance. Its
> > disks, not partitions.
>
> I am a big advocate of moving the swap away from c, for me the sole
> reason is that files don't get fragemented over the growing swap and the
> disk is easier to defrag. Just remember to put the dump directory of the
> kernel dump to the same location as the swap.
>
>
> > 2) turn off hybernation if its on.
> > 3) Move all temp directories to the other partition.
> >
> >
> > If it was me I would probably drop two drives in as a dedicated mirror for
> > the OS ( a couple of 18 gb SCSI drives, 9GB if I was pressed) reinstall os
> > there and then get all the apps working again, make sure that the new os set
> > has active status transferred is marked as boot drive and has all the
> > required files to boot, kill old OS part and use diskpart to extend old app
> > part to full disk size.
> >
>
> Well, you could also find out what folder is the biggest evil and mount
> the 2nd disk( or partion of that disk) as that folder.
>
> This way you don't need to reinstall everything.
>
> --
> mph
>
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