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Shrink the c drive with disk manager MS SBS 2008

Answered Shrink the c drive with disk manager MS SBS 2008

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  • Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:11 AM
     
     
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    Dont think you can as its a active drive. why do you want too do that anyway?

    Gareth | IT Support Norwich

     
  • Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:56 AM
     
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    Hi,

    Since Windows Server 2008 you can just right click the partition and choose shrink volume this will run out of the box.

    It might need a restart to finish the operation.

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  • Wednesday, March 06, 2013 9:25 AM
     
     
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    Hi

    What id the pros and cons.

    The hardive is to big to backup MS SBS 2008 only backups to 2TB

    This is running an exhange also

     
  • Wednesday, March 06, 2013 10:01 AM
     
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    Hi,

    I personally like to split, OS and DATA on separate partitions, to keep the system (OS) partition clean and small and move all data, databases, etc. to another partition. You can just move the common data (exchange, sharepoint, wsus and user data) using the move data wizard from the SBS console to any other available partition.

    Also as you say you can't use SBS backup on partitions bigger than 2 TB, so maybe you should break it in 3 partitions, system, databases (exchange, sharepoint, wsus) and a last for files (user and company)

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