Yeppers, moving the spool directory is one of the motivating factors for my 
client looking at redundant print servers.

They've had reports large enough to use all the space on C:.

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From: Ben Scott [[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:10 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Redundant Print Servers

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Terry Dickson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I can think of one.  We have had in the past, not recently, had users spool up
> jobs in the several GB range.  If the drives space were low it could corrupt 
> the
> server and Crash you DC.  That would not be fun.

  That could be addressed my putting things on separate partitions.
It's prolly worthwhile considering a dedicated partition for the AD
database (NTDS.DIT and friends) and SYSVOL for just this very reason,
maybe even on dedicated DCs.  Likewise, it's a good idea to relocate
the print job spool directory to a different/dedicated partition.
Changes the result of overly large print jobs from "entire machine
unstable" to "delete the jobs".

  Of course, we're not doing either in our environment right now.
Something to think about for our next server upgrade.

-- Ben

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