Len: Any thoughts or recommendations on partitioning....
Chuck Schick Warp 8, Inc. (303)-421-5140 www.warp8.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Conrad Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 9:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Defragging Disk Drives. >What are the pros and cons of running a defragmentation program on hard >drives on an Imail servers? pros: faster, more stable mail operations cons: it can consume a lot of resources (esp disk i/o) that you are trying to optimize >We use diskkeeper - anyone have other >recommendations? as good as any. any of the long-time, big-name defraggers work well. but before defragging: system design of partitions per function, partition sizing so that there is plenty of free disk space for defragging workspace, and frequent purging all partitions of stale files. Do the above wrong/badly, the defragging will take forever and eat tons of resources. Len To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
