Re: Expanding C: drive

From: Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP] (kweilbacMVP_at_gte.net)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:53:56 -0400

Andrew, if you've moved everything off, I'd be curious as to why your C:
drive is still using up disk space. It should remain fairly static. What
about your pagefile? Have you moved that, too? The only other thought might
be that Volume Shadon Copy Services is taking up some of that space. 

-- 
Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"
"Andrew H" <ajhpms@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uvozJivcEHA.2504@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I have a client whose C: drive is running out of space (and before anybody
> suggests it, all data folders, Exchange data and clientapps folders have
> already been reallocated).   Fortunately, the drive is on a fairly large
> hardware RAID-5 system with plenty of free space.  Since the C: drive is
> formatted as a dynamic disk, I know it's possible use Logical Disk Manager
> to grab some free space and expand C: into it.  I can even allocate extra
> space immediately adjacent to the current C: drive.
>
> My question is:  is expanding a dynamic volume with LDM better or worse
than
> ghosting C:, deleting and recreating a larger volume and restoring the
> image?
>
>

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