Disk Partition Size for Windows 2000

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Hi
Can anybody give your input on What is recommended Disk
Partition Size to Install Windows 2000?.
 
Hi
Can anybody give your input on What is recommended Disk
Partition Size to Install Windows 2000?.
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Windows 2000 will use 1.3 gig. However the minimum partition size I would
create is 10 gig. You will still want to install most programs on another
partition. You want to keep 2 gig free on the 2000 partition.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
 
Thanks for your replay
My server has 2 73GB HD on raid 1 and 2 146HD on Raid 0
I am planing to use SQL 2000 Server on the raid 1
If the minimun sugested disk partition size to install win
2000 is 10GB, If make one partition of 73GB to be use for
Win 2000 and SQL 2000 database, that will give me a good
performance? or in which way should I partition my 73GB HD
to get a good performance from Win 2000 and SQL 2000?.

Please any idea
 
Thanks for your replay
My server has 2 73GB HD on raid 1 and 2 146HD on Raid 0
I am planing to use SQL 2000 Server on the raid 1
If the minimun sugested disk partition size to install win
2000 is 10GB, If make one partition of 73GB to be use for
Win 2000 and SQL 2000 database, that will give me a good
performance? or in which way should I partition my 73GB HD
to get a good performance from Win 2000 and SQL 2000?.

Please any idea
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Windows 2000 will use 1.3 gig. However the minimum partition size I would
create is 10 gig. You will still want to install most programs on another
partition. You want to keep 2 gig free on the 2000 partition.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
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You will get best performance if you put 2000 and SQL database on
different physical drives. You will get better performance with SQL
database on the RAID 0 drives but if you loose one you loose everything.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
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Leonard - you surprise me. After several years of W2kPro operation with
most apps installed on my sys partition (but all data and the pagefiles
elsewhere) the 5.85GB partition has 2.72GB used and 3.13 free. The
system has never crashed except for rare hardware problems, chkdsk has
never reported a problem, and PerfectDisk has always run quickly to
completion with both online and offline defrags. I have on the order of
100+ apps, some 30 or so of which I use regularly. Is there something to
be gained from the extra 4GB you recommend, or is your recommendation
intended to cover all cases including server and workstation
installations much busier than mine?
 
Leonard - you surprise me. After several years of W2kPro operation
with most apps installed on my sys partition (but all data and the
pagefiles elsewhere) the 5.85GB partition has 2.72GB used and 3.13
free. The system has never crashed except for rare hardware problems,
chkdsk has never reported a problem, and PerfectDisk has always run
quickly to completion with both online and offline defrags. I have on
the order of 100+ apps, some 30 or so of which I use regularly. Is
there something to be gained from the extra 4GB you recommend, or is
your recommendation intended to cover all cases including server and
workstation installations much busier than mine?
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Because every 2 or 3 weeks I get a call from someone running out of
space on a 4 or 6 gig partition and trying to come up with a way to deal
with it. There is no need to cut it so close over 4 gig of space. Always
go a little larger. You have smaller than average applications I think,
even for a workstation.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
 
Leonard said:
Leonard - you surprise me. After several years of W2kPro operation
with most apps installed on my sys partition (but all data and the
pagefiles elsewhere) the 5.85GB partition has 2.72GB used and 3.13
free. The system has never crashed except for rare hardware problems,
chkdsk has never reported a problem, and PerfectDisk has always run
quickly to completion with both online and offline defrags. I have on
the order of 100+ apps, some 30 or so of which I use regularly. Is
there something to be gained from the extra 4GB you recommend, or is
your recommendation intended to cover all cases including server and
workstation installations much busier than mine?

Leonard Severt [MSFT] wrote:

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Hi
Can anybody give your input on What is recommended Disk
Partition Size to Install Windows 2000?.





Windows 2000 will use 1.3 gig. However the minimum partition size I
would create is 10 gig. You will still want to install most programs
on another partition. You want to keep 2 gig free on the 2000
partition.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
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Because every 2 or 3 weeks I get a call from someone running out of
space on a 4 or 6 gig partition and trying to come up with a way to deal
with it. There is no need to cut it so close over 4 gig of space. Always
go a little larger. You have smaller than average applications I think,
even for a workstation.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team
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That's probably correct. Too much bad code for my taste in too many
flabby apps. Grew up trying to write binary sorts in less than 9
machine instructions etc back when time, space, and cycles were expensive.
I guess suggestions like yours do help the innocent.
 
Bit confused why the MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training book for Microsoft
Windows 2000 Server Exam 70-215 would recommend, on page 45, of a boot
partition of at least 1GB but recommends at least 2GB?
 
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