can we move pagefile.sys to another partition or drive on windows sbs 2003?

Question

windows 2003 sbs on c dirve there is very little space and 1.5 gb is occupied by pagefile.sys is it recommeded to move that file to another partition or drive??

Answer 1

you can and should indeed move your swap file to another partition or, if you have a 2nd hard disk, to a partition on the other HD.
right click on "My Computer", click on Properties (bottom of the menu)
go to Advanced and in the Performance rectangle, click on Settings
go to Advanced (again) and click on the Change button
make sure C: is selected, choose "No paging file" and click on Set
select the drive on which you want to place the file on, choose "system managed size" and click on Set;

you will have to reboot for this to take effect.
unless you do the "No paging file" part for C:, the swap file on C: will not be removed; there simply will be another one added on the other partition.

if you are very short of disc space, you may also want to put the TEMP & TMP on a different partition.
preferably, T(E)MP should even go on a different HARD DISK then swap (and the swap should be on a different hard disk then the windows partition (C:)
in an other partition, create a sub-directory TMP and in that create two sub-directories users and system; you'll end up with two Directories, e.g. E:\TMP\users and E:\TMP\system

go to "My Computer", click on Properties (bottom of the menu)
go to Advanced and click on [Environment Variables]
set the user variables to E:\TMP\users and the System two variables to E:\TMP\system;
might give you another couple hundreds megabytes disk space back, but you will have to delete the files from c:\windows\temp or c:\document and settings\..... yourself, in order to remove the old files.
watch out for applications that may have set their own TMP environment variable.

if you are struggeling now to get the 1.5 GB swp space back, that will be filledup by Programs, Shared components and knows billy the gate what else in a few months, again.
if you have another partition next to it, you may want to consider or
- remove the other partition (if it's only a few GBs)
- reduce the size of the other partition
and give the windows partition another 5 GB (beside removing swap & tmp).

good luck!

Answer 2

Yes you can.

You need to go to your system icon in your control panel.

Then go to advanced
then Performance Options, then Advanced.

Under virtual memory, click the change button.

On the other partition, setup your swap file size. Usually good to set the minimum 2x the amount of physical mem you have, and the max would be double that, and click set.

Go back to the C drive, and 0 out both inital and max size. Click Set, then Ok.

Close out all other screens, and reboot.

Poof, you've now moved your swap file.

Answer 3

in basic terms re-set up residing house windows, and flow for your residing house windows.old folder, and get each and every thing you want on your installation. Simplified: a million.) set up residing house windows back. 2.) flow to C: and locate the folder residing house windows.old 3.) Drag & Drop any application you want over, and then delete residing house windows.old 4.) appreciate. even if it is your residing house windows folder that has an endemic in it, make particular you do not flow the residing house windows folder over, then you actually will be advantageous.

Answer 4

Move Pagefile.sys

Answer 5

Yes, in fact it's a good idea to do so. However, you should NOT put it on an RAID-5 array.