Guest runner7@fastmail.fm Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Can anyone tell me if it is safe or recommended to compress the system or boot partitions on a network server running Windows Server 2003, or where info on this may be documented? Thanks for any help.
Guest Coraleigh Miller Posted August 26, 2007 Posted August 26, 2007 Re: compressing the system and boot partitions Hi Runner7, I cant locate any info on this at the moment..but no it is not recommended to do this. Your server performs a ton of read operations on the system partition, if it is compressed the server will need to work that much harder to access what it needs as it would need to uncompress and then recompress each needed file on each read you would find that all of your server based network services would slow down noticeably. If you are running out of space on your system partition there are a few things you can do to free some up as well as suggestions on how to replace your system drive with a new larger one with minimal downtime/reconfiguration.. weve mentioned many ways to do this in this newsgroup recently, if you perform a search here you'll find that people have already put forth some great suggestions. Coraleigh Miller <runner7@fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:1188091408.625556.67430@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com... > Can anyone tell me if it is safe or recommended to compress the system > or boot partitions on a network server running Windows Server 2003, or > where info on this may be documented? Thanks for any help. >
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