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by qdexter

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I am setting up Active Directory on a new W2K Domain Controller, and was just wondering if I should place the database and log files on a seperate partition from the system files or not. What have other people done, any recommendations?

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by bigcheif

I have a w2k system setup on 2 partitions. One for system files and one for dat & user files. The system drive C: is 2 gig and the rest for D:. This was also recomended to me by my tech people. I like the idea because I don't have to hardly do anything on c: and I don't have any shares on that drive at all.

by jeff williams

I completely agree with the previous answer. In general, it's a good rule of thumb to move files whose size are largely variable to a partition with enough room to handle it. If you're going to give yourself a large system partition then perhaps it's not necessary. A good example would be the spool directory on your print servers or directories that specifically store just data. In my enterprise, we generally leave only the OS System files on the System partition and install other software on another partition. Especially if that software is not M$ software.

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