Whatever happened to your concern over "combining the two 20 Gb volumes into a single volume (the dreaded software RAID)"?
What you have now isn't RAID, it's worse than that. Either drive failure takes down the entire volume with none of the performance benefits that RAID would give. Carl From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Cleaning up a WSUS server WHEW! Although it seemed to take quite a bit of time to convert the empty drive to dynamic, the WSUS drive converted in about 2 seconds. WSUS broke, though, probably because the volume was dismounted for the conversion. A re-boot later, and it appears I now have a WSUS server with a 38 Gb volume (19 free), exactly what I was wanting way back when I first set the thing up. THANKS!!! -- Richard D. McClary Systems Administrator, Information Technology Group ASPCAR 1717 S. Philo Rd, Ste 36 Urbana, IL 61802 richardmccl...@aspca.org P: 217-337-9761 C: 217-417-1182 F: 217-337-9761 <http://www.aspca.org/> www.aspca.org The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is from The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsR (ASPCAR) and is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying or use of the contents of this e-mail, and any attachments hereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me by reply email and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-mail and any printout thereof. tony patton <tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com> wrote on 07/14/2009 09:01:18 AM: > > 1. Doesn't matter if it's a seperate physical disk or not. > > 2. Should still work, asked one of the server gurus here, but he's > never tried it on a completely full partition. > > Regards > > Tony Patton > Desktop Operations Cavan > Ext 8078 > Direct Dial 049 435 2878 > email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com > > > richardmccl...@aspca.org > 14/07/2009 14:51 > > Please respond to > "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > > To > > "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > > cc > > Subject > > RE: Cleaning up a WSUS server > > > > > > Will that work when: > > 1. Each 20 Gb volume is a separate physical disk, and > > 2. The WSUS drive is nearly full? > > (Don't know what the @#*& is going on, but I just now tried the MS > "Disk cleanup and compress". Now it's gone from 200 Kb to 150 Kb to > ZERO Kb...) > > Thanks! > > tony patton <tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com> wrote on 07/14/2009 08:46:46 AM: > > > > > What about converting the existing wsus partition to dynamic and > > allocating the extra 20gig to it as you need it? > > > > Regards > > > > Tony Patton > > Desktop Operations Cavan > > Ext 8078 > > Direct Dial 049 435 2878 > > email: tony.pat...@quinn-insurance.com > > > > > > > richardmccl...@aspca.org > > 14/07/2009 14:45 > > > > Please respond to > > "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > > > > To > > > > "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > > > > cc > > > > Subject > > > > RE: Cleaning up a WSUS server > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks... > > > > I skipped the "Express installation files", and the 20 Gb WSUS > > volume is indeed on a _separate_ volume from the OS. (That's what > > led me to building this, my second WSUS, several years back.) > > -- > > RMc > > > > Miller Bonnie L. <mille...@mukilteo.wednet.edu> wrote on 07/14/2009 > > 08:33:08 AM: > > > > > You don't mention the version, but if you are on 3 or higher and > > > using express installation files (options, update files and > > > languages), you might be able to remove those and run cleanup again > > > to get some additional space, but that is probably just a band-aid. > > > > > > BTW, do you mean that the WSUS server + OS are all sharing one 20GB > > > partition? If you are thinking of moving it so it has its own 20GB > > > volume, I can dig around in my notes-I have done that before, but it > > > has been a while. > > > > > > -Bonnie > > > > > > From: richardmccl...@aspca.org [mailto:richardmccl...@aspca.org] > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 6:04 AM > > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > > Subject: Cleaning up a WSUS server > > > > > > > > > Greetings! > > > > > > My WSUS server runs off a 20 Gb partition. I have a second, nearly > > > blank 20 Gb disk in the same machine. > > > > > > The WSUS volume is nearly full. I have twice run the "Cleanup > > > wizard". Each time, it reports that it has cleared out a few Mb > > > disk space. However, when I then look at the disk itself, it shows > > > less space than before. (The recycler claims to be empty.) > > > > > > I guess I could go through the whole list of updates and disapprove > > > some of them. 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