windowspagefile

Move PageFile.sys To Another Drive


Is it 100% safe to move the pagefile.sys file from c: to another drive on Windows Server 2008? We are getting low on C: space and need to move it off, but not if there is any risk. This is a production web server and (other than a quick reboot) downtime is not acceptable, as you can imagine :)


Solution

  • I dont think this is a good place for such questions, its a programming related site,

    I can give you a hint that this should be OK, It will even speed up you paging file, some reference below (I was actually reading it recently :) ):

    http://lifehacker.com/5426041/understanding-the-windows-pagefile-and-why-you-shouldnt-disable-it

    following part:

    What you should actually do is move your pagefile to a completely different physical drive to split up the workload.

    but confirm it with some windows admin experts