David, Len, Bruce and Martin: Thank you for your responses.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Waller Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Defragging Disk Drives. Chuck, Our set up is c:\ - OS d:\ - Imail g:\ - Imail users f:\ - Imail spool c:\ & d:\ are scsi raid1 All the best, David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck Schick Sent: 12 January 2007 16:59 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Defragging Disk Drives. 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/ 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/
