Re: Diskspace & Proliant & SBS 2003

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News has the better answer. Use what you have controller wise if it is
good stuff. He says it is and I have no reason to doubt him.

Get TreesizePro and look at what is eating up your hard drive. 10 gigs
is tight but you can free up some space if you know where to look.
TreeSize can help. I got rid of 2 gigs today. Old logs from ISA and
RIM. You can move swap files, move old service pack files, and you
might still be frustrated.;-)

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:42:55 -0800, Frank Jacobs
<FrankJacobs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey Oscar

Yes, always use quality material. And there are 4 more driveslots free.
Problem is that system partition is getting full (no data on that disc).
So I am obliged to use an imaging program such as acronis.

Just trying to figure out the right way!

Frank

"news" wrote:

Frank Jacobs wrote:
Hi,

I have problem at client.
Running SBS 2003 with AD/Exchange.

MIRROR of 2 discs 36GB with 3 partitions on Smart Array 641.

Problem:
drive C: 500MB free (of 10GB) system
drive D: 3GB free (of 10GB) exchange partition
drive E: 500MB free of 15GB (data partition)

How can we expand the diskcapacity?
Can we use a tool like Volume Manager ?
Is it best to make a "ghost image backup", expand disks and rewrite the
ghost image ?

Please give feedback.

Frank

with the smart array 641, you have a very nice hardware raid controller.

Do you have more space in the server to add disks?

I'd just get more disks (larger 72 or 140GB). Make a raid 1 with hot
spare using the proliant array tools. Then boot into windows, it should
pick up the new drive. Format as ntfs, then move the data!

It's that easy!

avoid software raid as much as possible. hardware is much better and
you do have a very good one in your server.

you can then use any backup tools to image your server after this work
is done.

I'd suggest acronis. Ghost was good years ago, now it sucks!

Good luck,

Oskar


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