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From: Simi on 13 May 2010 23:21 An article is shared for some "Disk Partition Management on Windows Small Business Server (SBS) 2003 ": http://www.extend-partition.com/resource/SBS-2003-resize-partition-software.html maxim wrote: Resize partition with SBS 2003 on it 16-Nov-07 Hi I have a question about resizing the C volume. i took over the maintenance of a server 2003 sbs and the first thing that i saw was de 600 mb left on the system volume What are the possibilities to enlarge this Volume? all the logfiles ( exchange , backup, systemlog etc.. ) i allready moved to the data partition to save some space but i'm unable to install service packs, properly defragment and install software in the future. What are my possibilities Make an image with a Ghost app backup data partition, reconfigure partitions and as last restore the image? Use a tool like partition magic ? Disk configuration Raid mirroring -2 disks) C (600 MB left of 10 GB) E (35 GB left of 50 GB ) Total physical disksize 60 GB thank you in advance ! Maxime Previous Posts In This Thread: On Friday, November 16, 2007 8:21 AM maxim wrote: Resize partition with SBS 2003 on it Hi I have a question about resizing the C volume. i took over the maintenance of a server 2003 sbs and the first thing that i saw was de 600 mb left on the system volume What are the possibilities to enlarge this Volume? all the logfiles ( exchange , backup, systemlog etc.. ) i allready moved to the data partition to save some space but i'm unable to install service packs, properly defragment and install software in the future. What are my possibilities Make an image with a Ghost app backup data partition, reconfigure partitions and as last restore the image? Use a tool like partition magic ? Disk configuration Raid mirroring -2 disks) C (600 MB left of 10 GB) E (35 GB left of 50 GB ) Total physical disksize 60 GB thank you in advance ! Maxime On Friday, November 16, 2007 9:57 AM Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote: Re: Resize partition with SBS 2003 on it maxime <maxime(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: I like Acronis Disk Director for this.....but do a good full, verified backup first. Note that you really don't have enough space on this server in general to run it properly - I think you need more storage. If you're using hardware RAID (which you should be) see if you can add another array for data, such as a RAID5. Even if you're not using hardware RAID, you still need more disk space. You can generally get away with a 10GB system volume if you don't have anything besides your OS and binaries on it - no data. Check out something like TreeSize Pro (shareware) or similar file management software to make it easy to find out what's taking up all the space. Note that SBS questions should be posted in microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs. It's good to start there in general (or at least crosspost to it) because the SBS suite has many peculiarities and differences from the non-SBS versions. On Friday, November 16, 2007 10:16 AM Kerry Brown wrote: I use a combination of Acronis True Image and Acronis Disk Director. I use a combination of Acronis True Image and Acronis Disk Director. Image all the partitions. Verify the image. I do this offline while booted from the True Image recovery media. Once you have a couple of good verified images of all the partitions use Disk Director to adjust the partition sizes. This assumes that your RAID controller is supported by Acronis. This will also leave you in an unsupported by Microsoft position should things go wrong. The official Microsoft supported way is to use the SBS backup wizard to backup the server, flatten the server, re-partition as you like, restore the backup. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=487736f8-f6f5-436d-a82d-0c8d66e2a634&displaylang=en http://www.acronis.com/ Whatever you do make sure you have several good backups before starting. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca "maxime" <maxime(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:6DB1932F-2C4D-4EE8-B736-42860A304A4C(a)microsoft.com... On Friday, November 16, 2007 10:33 AM NewellWhit wrote: Do you really have to re-size? Do you really have to re-size? We run our DC (hosting file server and App Server for database serving entire design, manufacture, and sales functions) with 7.84 Gbyte of C: drive, currently 1.54Gbyte is free. I freed up space on the C: drive by following steps: 1) 1.5Gbyte - Move most of C:\pagefile.sys to D: Create a new file D:\pagefile.sys, min = 1536Mbyte, max = 1536Mbyte Modify file C:\pagefile.sys, min = 128Mbyte, max = 128Mbyte Use regedit.exe to set HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Mnager\Memory Management ClearPageFileAtShutdown DWORD 0 => 1 Takes effect when you re-boot. 2) 1Gbyte - Move all folders C:\windows\$nt*uninst* to D:\exc_windows\ You can't uninstall MS updates to your operating system without moving them back, but in 2 years in this job I have never wanted to! 3) 0.65Gbyte - move app software If you have install CD or download, uninstall from C:\Program Files\ and re-install in D:\moved_programs\ These changes have been in place for at least 12 months with no problems. -- Regards, Newell White "maxime" wrote: On Friday, November 16, 2007 11:57 AM Kerry Brown wrote: SBS has special considerations and needs a lot more room for the OS than a SBS has special considerations and needs a lot more room for the OS than a normal DC. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca On Friday, November 16, 2007 1:29 PM Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote: Re: Resize partition with SBS 2003 on it Hmmm. Why's that? The SBS files themselves are quite small, and I do not find this to be so. During setup, I do not put anything on the system volume when I have the choice to put it elsewhere. On Friday, November 16, 2007 2:43 PM Kerry Brown wrote: If you pick the right options during the install then move a bunch of stuff If you pick the right options during the install then move a bunch of stuff afterwards then of course you're right. I've seen too many SBS installs where this wasn't done though. How many DC's other than SBS are running SQL, Exchange, SharePoint, WSUS, ISA, and probably a LOB app or two? Even if all the data files are relocated during the install there's still a lot of stuff in Program Files by default. By the time you start adding updates and service packs it's not unusual to see 15 - 20 GB on a SBS 2003 R2 premium install. That said I've seen SBS 2003 SP1 Standard run fine on a 12 GB System/Boot partition but it does take more time to manage installing service packs. I still haven't figured out how I'm going to get Server 2003 SP2 on there. The customer doesn't want to pay for bigger drives at this point :-( -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench(a)heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatyahoo.com> wrote in message news:uvC8m6HKIHA.5160(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... On Saturday, November 17, 2007 11:48 AM Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] wrote: Re: Resize partition with SBS 2003 on it Kerry Brown <kerry(a)kdbNOSPAMsys-tems.c*a*m> wrote: Yep - which is why I always install my servers from scratch myself. OF course, sometimes you're fixing up a server you didn't install. However, you can move stuff afterwards, no harm done. Not many, and even in SBS I prefer to keep things simple - no ISA, and rarely SQL. If SQL is very badly needed, I usually recommend another server. But yes, it can get very crowded in there. They'd rather pay for labor, hmmm? :-) On Sunday, December 13, 2009 3:42 AM cheng hong wrote: Easy to resize SBS 2003 partition I hear that many tools can resize partition, such as partition magic, GParted, disk director, easeus partition master?.. I would like to use easeus partition master, it is simple and easy to resize SBS 2003 partition, no need to reboot and no data loss. See the detailed information: http://www.partition-tool.com/resource/extend-sbs-2003-server.htm Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice WPF Customized Find Control for FlowDocuments http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/233d3397-0388-473c-8473-721a40cf910c/wpf-customized-find-contr.aspx
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