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We have a client machine on the network running Windows
2000 Server but not as domain controller. The network is
a SBS2000 one.
The client is a Dell PowerEdge 2400 (Dual-PIII with 1536MB
RAM) with a RAID-5 disk array consisting of x5 36GB SCSI
in RAID-5 with a HotSpare in bay 6. The RAID-5 array is
Dynamic through Disk Manager (we use Dell OpenManage Array
Manager) with a C Drive partition of 8GB and data
drives/volumes called N,P,Q,T each dynamic with
unallocated space we can assign to N,P,Q and T - should we
need to increase the partition sizes.
The questions are as follows:
1. The user recently had his C Drive Free space reduced to
just a few MB. So he moved his pagefile.sys from C Drive
to Q Drive. This released around 2GB of space from C
Drive. What risk is there of moving pagefile.sys from C
Drive to a data drive called Q? Q now has in the root
pagefile.sys of 2.5GB.
2. When the swap file was moved, this was set using an
initial size of 2500MB and a maximum size of 4095MB. We
tried entering 4096MB as the max size, but a pop-up
dialogue box requested us to set this to 4095 - which
seems quite a strange number. Why is this?
3. The user wants to increase his C Drive partition by
assigning some Unallocated space to C. Is this a good
thing to do? Please can someone tell me whether this is
OK - as the user wants a lot more free space in C - the
only way possible is to assign more to C. In actual fact,
I seem to recall the user trying to assign more MB to C
Drive - but could not - is this true? In which case, how
can we allocate more space to C by making use of the
Unallocated space?
If someone could kindly answer the questions above this
would be most appreciated.
Skc
2000 Server but not as domain controller. The network is
a SBS2000 one.
The client is a Dell PowerEdge 2400 (Dual-PIII with 1536MB
RAM) with a RAID-5 disk array consisting of x5 36GB SCSI
in RAID-5 with a HotSpare in bay 6. The RAID-5 array is
Dynamic through Disk Manager (we use Dell OpenManage Array
Manager) with a C Drive partition of 8GB and data
drives/volumes called N,P,Q,T each dynamic with
unallocated space we can assign to N,P,Q and T - should we
need to increase the partition sizes.
The questions are as follows:
1. The user recently had his C Drive Free space reduced to
just a few MB. So he moved his pagefile.sys from C Drive
to Q Drive. This released around 2GB of space from C
Drive. What risk is there of moving pagefile.sys from C
Drive to a data drive called Q? Q now has in the root
pagefile.sys of 2.5GB.
2. When the swap file was moved, this was set using an
initial size of 2500MB and a maximum size of 4095MB. We
tried entering 4096MB as the max size, but a pop-up
dialogue box requested us to set this to 4095 - which
seems quite a strange number. Why is this?
3. The user wants to increase his C Drive partition by
assigning some Unallocated space to C. Is this a good
thing to do? Please can someone tell me whether this is
OK - as the user wants a lot more free space in C - the
only way possible is to assign more to C. In actual fact,
I seem to recall the user trying to assign more MB to C
Drive - but could not - is this true? In which case, how
can we allocate more space to C by making use of the
Unallocated space?
If someone could kindly answer the questions above this
would be most appreciated.
Skc