Best Practice Domino programs and data directory

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At a lotusphere session a few years ago, I rememeber one of the presenters told us that installing the Domino program files on a C:\ drive partition, and the data files on an extended partition such as E:\ would be optimal for performance reasons.

I’m doing some work for a new organization, and they currently place both program files and data files on the extended partition.

I can’t seem to find any documentation which points to using C:\ and E:\ instead of E: and E:\ and the performance benefits or reasons why you would do it one way versus the other.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this, or any links to IBM official documentation (redbooks, technotes, etc).

Thanks

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Subject: Best Practice Domino programs and data directory

The program files do not change often and usually do not grow or shrink in size, so they should be placed on a smaller partition. This smaller partition will not get as fragmented as the data partition, so you don’t have to run defrag as often.

Domino Data (and other files like the OS’s page file) continually grow and shrink over time depending on usage. It is best to place these files on a larger partition. These files will normally become fragmented, so you should run defrag periodically.

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Subject: Best Practice Domino programs and data directory

Went to google, typed in Domino c: e: extended partition and found this:

Link off that page to more partition information.

It’s old but I’d assume it has relevance today.

Doug

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Subject: POLL: How do you have your server directory structure configured?

This documentation is pretty good, but it’s also pretty old.

The notes.net article is from 1999 and the Notes Bench stuff is also pretty old.

I had completely forgotten about Notes Bench. It’s a shame that it seems to be defunct.

Any updated thoughts on R6.5? What about setting temp directory?

Let’s say you have the following drives:

All on a on a Raid 5 Array

C:\ OS and Programs

D:\ Extended Partition

E:\ CD or DVD Drive

What would you recommend for Domino program files?

What would you recommend for WINDOWS 2000/2003 page file?

What would you recommend for Domino Data Directory

What would you recommend for Domino Temp directory

Would you recommend and 3rd Partition, such as C: D: E: and F:=CD/DVD Drive?

How large are your C: drive partitions?

Domino temp directory would be used for Notes.ini variables, such as View_Rebuild_Dir=f:\temp\

Your thoughts are appreciated. I can’t seem to find any information on the web these days about efficient and optimal OS/Domino configuration for Windows 2000/2003 and Domino 6.5.x

Thanks.