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Out of Space on Primary NTFS Part.

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Name: Brian
Date: July 15, 2003 at 11:21:28 Pacific
Subject: Out of Space on Primary NTFS Part.
OS: WinNT
CPU/Ram: PIII 512
Comment:

Our primary NTFS partition (F:\) on our PDC for our User's to store their folders/files is 15.6GB and only has 228MB left. There is another (G:\) NTFS partition with plenty of space however. What is the best/easiest resolution?

1) What about decreasing the size of the G:\ partition and increasing the size of the F:\ partition? Is this possible without a 3rd party software such as PM or other app?

2) User PCs are mapped to the F:\ drive which includes around 75 or so PCs. How would I go about moving all the User Folders, etc. over to the G:\ drive ... and then remapping User PCs without having to do so on each individual PC? Is it possible to do this from the PDC?

Thanks for your suggestions.


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Response Number 1
Name: Jack
Date: July 15, 2003 at 11:50:50 Pacific
Reply:

1) Not possible without 3rd party software.

2) Unless there's something special going on, the user's maps are to a shared folder, and not the root of the drive. Therefore, it doesn't matter where the files reside on the server, the clients map to the share name. (i.e. \\server\share)

The drive letter on the server has nothing to do with the drive letter of the map on the clients.

It should not be a problem to move the entire shared folder from the F: to the G:, then re-create the folder share. If done afterhours, it should be transparent to the users. Their maps will still be to the same data, but on the G: drive instead of the F: drive. However, on their machines, it will still map to the F: drive letter.


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