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Exchange 2000 is outgrowing disk

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by scunningham 1 view

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I have exchange 2000 running on disk 0 (as is my c:). I would like to move it from disk 0 to disk 1 where I have 17 GB of free space. I would like some recommendations on the best way to do this. Thank you.

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by aaron h.

If you are running the exchange server on win 2k you can mount the free space on your second drive up under one or more of your directories on the c: drive. This is transparent to the programs that access it. That means that there are no configuration changes that need to be made to the server. No changes mean a much lower chance of problems creeping into the solution. Probably less downtime also. Remember that you have to have the target directory empty before you mount free space under it. So, stop all services that are accessing that folder. Move the contents to a temp location. Then mount the free space under it. Put the contents back into it and start the services. That should be it. Definitely the least hassle.

by aaron h.

One last note. You could also take the system offline, image the original drive with something like Drive Image Pro and then restore the image onto the larger drive.

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