You can install to the D drive - but that would still deploy the 12 hive to the COMMONPROGRAMFILES location.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nathan Rhodes Sent: Wednesday, 3 June 2009 2:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: SharePoint ate my hard drive I have always installed SharePoint to the D:\ having the applications running on their own spindle. This should give better performance I am very surprised if this is unsupported. Are you referring to the core files eg C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12. I don't believe you could even change this? Regards, Nathan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ishai Sagi Sent: Wednesday, 3 June 2009 1:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: SharePoint ate my hard drive According to Microsoft (http://www.tech-archive.net/pdf/Archive/SharePoint/microsoft.public.sha repoint.windowsservices/2008-12/msg00011.pdf) you cannot change the location of the WSS installation files - it uses the system variable "%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%" Presumably you could change it before installing - but I wouldn't try. Because of patches and other such issues, I'd recommend a OS partition of 30GB for a sharepoint server, and immediately move the logs to a secondary drive. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Nemtsev Sent: Wednesday, 3 June 2009 1:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: SharePoint ate my hard drive Hello, I would avoid such shenanigans, because SharePoint doesn't support installation of core files on other drives. Even installation package ask you where to install, it keeps 12Hive folder on C drive. Just move DB to other drive and that's all Even there are some ways to move all files from C I expect you get number of unpredictable issues with updates, components and other stuff which has encoded C:\ drive. I believe that SharePoint 2010 will fix this, especially around the feature storage (should be isolated storage, not file directory) Michael Nemtsev Readify | Microsoft MVP http://msmvps.org/blogs/laflour T: 0424 184 978 | E: [email protected] ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Noone [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 3 June 2009 11:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: SharePoint ate my hard drive Hi all, Does anyone know if SharePoint can be installed on a partition other than C? We've run into major disk space issues with our VMS (they were only ever allocated a 20GB drive). As a result I've uninstalled non-essential software, reduced diagnostic log retention and trace log levels. I'm even looking at creating a new partition for all servers and relocating any log files that can be moved. I still don't see this as a long term solution though because its Windows (and SharePoint) Updates that are the real culprits. The way I see it we either get some third party software and resize all the C partitions (unsupported?) or rebuild all the servers with greater disk capacity and attempt MOSS/WSS installation on a partition that can be resized. Would be very interested in hearing if other people have run into this, what the solutions were, and what general base requirements you'd suggest for disk size. Regards, Paul Online Developer, ICT CEO Sydney ________________________________ Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Support procedure: http://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Support procedure: http://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support procedure: http://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support procedure: http://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/ozmoss Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists
