RE: Re: WHS Tips

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mal.

You should be able to redirect your TEMP folder to another drive to
avoid some, if not all, of those issues.

The standard windows temp folder is part of your user profile, and is
pointed to by a couple of environment variables. You can certainly set
up another temp folder on another drive, and change the environment
variables accordingly. The only issue is whether the 3rd party programs
in question actually honour the windows temp setting, or if they use
their own temporary files management scheme. Rooting around in the
registry usually reveals any application-specific temp folder...

Paul G.


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Mal Lansell
Sent: 18 November 2007 10:44
To: UKHA Group
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: WHS Tips

That approach is not just a problem in WHS.  Download a file in Vista
and it gets put onto the C drive and then gets copied to the final
destination when complete.  Not only do you need to keep enough space
free, but you also have to wait for the file copy after the download has

finished :-(

Nero does a similar thing - using C for temp storage.  I've had trouble
setting up a movie conversion because I didn't have 20GB of space free
on my C drive :-(

Mal





Jamie Bennett wrote:
>
> One problem I'm finding is with the way the drive extender works.
>
> I've installed WHS on a spare 80gb drive I had hanging around thinking

> this
> would be plenty for a OS server install. But the way the drive
extender
> works is that it 'pools' all hard drives together to make it seem like

> there
> is one big bit of storage. In reality what happens is everything gets
> put on
> the main disk (the 80gb one in my case) then farmed off onto the other

> disks
> by the drive extender. The problem is that the drive extender doesn't
> constantly move files so even though I have a lot of free space in
there,
> file copies and downloads are failing until the disks are
'rebalanced'.
>
> The technical PDF for drive extender recommends that you install the
OS on
> the biggest drive possible to avoid these kinds of problems, nice of
> them to
> tell me first! Anyway, looks like I'll be reinstalling WHS. Anyone
> know if a
> ghost image and restore onto a larger disk would work with WHS?
>
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