Adding a partition to a directory?

[Martin Smulian]

I have a shared directory (D:\Media) and am running out of disk space.

I have unused space on another (physcial) drive an would like added this
(E:\Spare) so that any files, including files in subdirectories, would be seen
as part of D:|Media, both locally and as the share.

If I create a junction point linking E:\Spare to D:\Media will windows

1. see the files in both as belonging to D:\Media
2. only see the files in E:\Spare
3. go into a recursive loop

Is there an alternative / better way of doing this?


Martin
Just another confused user

 

[smlunatick]

I have a shared directory (D:\Media) and am running out of disk space.

I have unused space on another (physcial) drive an would like added this
(E:\Spare) so that any files, including files in subdirectories, would be seen
as part of D:|Media, both locally and as the share.

If I create a junction point linking E:\Spare to D:\Media will windows

1. see the files in both as belonging to D:\Media
2. only see the files in E:\Spare
3. go into a recursive loop

Is there an alternative / better way of doing this?

Martin
Just another confused user

The better way is to replace the older, smaller D: drive with a newer
larger hard drive. Within this process, you would "clone" the older
D: drive to the newer drive and expand the DL partition.

Or, break the shared drive D: settings, move the folder to the larger
drive and then re-do to shared settings while on the E:

 

[Martin Smulian]

Agreed, new drives are better, but the drive that is running low on space is
250GB and there is a seond 250gb drive already in the machine. I will be adding
space once the new Hitachi 1000 gb drives are available.

In the meantime, does anyone know if using juction points will work?

thank you

martin

The better way is to replace the older, smaller D: drive with a newer
larger hard drive. Within this process, you would "clone" the older
D: drive to the newer drive and expand the DL partition.

Or, break the shared drive D: settings, move the folder to the larger
drive and then re-do to shared settings while on the E:

Martin
Just another confused user

 

[over]

Agreed, new drives are better, but the drive that is running low on
space is 250GB and there is a seond 250gb drive already in the
machine. I will be adding space once the new Hitachi 1000 gb drives
are available.

In the meantime, does anyone know if using juction points will work?

thank you

martin



Martin
Just another confused user

You can normally only create a junction at an empty directory. If it
were possible to do as you suggest and see the files stored in two places
as one directory, when you wrote a new file there, how would it decide
which place to actually write the file?

You could move all of the files out of your existing D:\Media to E:
\Spare, then create a junction at D:\Media that points to E:\Spare.

It may be easier to do this sort of thing with a partition that you map
to D:\Media instead of assigning it a drive letter (do this in Disk
Management).