Extending folder onto new drive

[BCinSC]

was reading in a Server 2003 manual that you can do this. I have a 9GB drive in my server and added a 36GB. For seamlessness to the end users, I simply want the shared folder, or even partition, to span onto new drive. Thoughts?

 

[Smilin]

You can do it in disk manager. Rather than (or in addition to) assigning a drive letter you can simply mount the drive to an empty folder on another disk.

 

[BCinSC]

How? And does folder have to be empty? My goal is to expand space for users data without having to copy/move/set permissions again.

 

[Confused]

Right click on My Computer, go to Manage. Then go to Disk Management. Now, you will not want a drive letter (like F: ) assigned to the hard drive you just put in. Instead, you will want to "mount as folder" on existing drive, it's there in the options for assigning the drive

Can't remember exactly where it is/what it says exactly, but it's there and doable


Confused

 

[BCinSC]

OK, reading on Microsoft's site, too, and found what you're talking about, but the requirement of being an empty folder throws me. No way to simply extend share?

 

[kursplat]

you could just make it an extra folder (with some kind of descriptive name) within the existing shared folder , and it should inherit the existing shares.
good luck

 

[BCinSC]

BCinSC
Senior Member
Thank you. Found that KB article, too, and utilized it. Because the directory I wanted to extend wasn't empty, I had to migrate it to new drive. Since it was the Users directory, it had permission requirements from hell. To move, I used this KB article, xcopy with permissions, then mounted.


blcjr
Senior Member
I think what you want to do is "mount" a volume at a folder. Read this for details. Technically, you would not refer to this as "extending a shared folder..." Mounting and sharing are different things.