It's generally a bad idea to use the SYS volume for storage because it's the OS volume and filling it up would be bad, but since you're already there changing would probably be painfull.
i totally agree with you but since i didn't set it up to begin with, i am sorta stuck with it. :frown:
Since I have no idea how flexible the hardware RAID you have is, I'll assume it's not =)
What you can do is put in the new drives and mirror them in hardware. Then create a new NetWare partition on the logical drive. Then you can extend the SYS volume by adding a segment from the new partition you just created. It's ugly, but it should work.
well its a compaq server, so i'll agree with you on the "flexible" part. as for the rest, i'll see what i can do. i am not so worried about the hardware as i am about making the whole thing just "work". i am really not supposed to work on the server b/c of warranty issues but from you've told me, i can see that it IS possible. so now i can talk to the tech-guys that we have a contract with (this is the warrenty issue i mentioned) on the server and tell them what we want to do. they told me that it wasn't possible b/c they really didn't want to do it. they are like that about a lot of stuff in the office.
What would be best, would be to move all the data off of the SYS volume. Since the print jobs go there you probably want to have it be no smaller than 4G. And create a seperate volume for the data.
that sounds like a really good idea. i mean since we are already working on it, might as well make it right. right? anyways, thanks for the info. you've told me exactly what i needed to know.
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