Consolidating two indexer partition into one bigger partition

[John_Santana]

based on this article: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH35596

Is it possible for me to consolidate two different index drives with two different drive letters into just one single big drives ?

at the moment I got the following:

O:\ drive 200 GB 90% full
I:\ drive 200 GB 95% full

and I'd like to create one more Z: drive with 1 TB capacity to contain the indexer from both drives with the capacity to grow.

[Rob_Wilcox1 · Accepted solution]

Yes.  It's not that hard to do.

Just remember to something robust when doing the filecopy, not just 'Windows'.

[John_Santana]

I am worried if in case I overwrite some files if I merge the two content from both drives into just one single drive.

Ok, so what will happen worst come to worst ?

[Rob_Wilcox1]

You'd have to go back to your backup where they are separate, and then undo the changes in SQL.

[John_Santana]

Thanks Rob, so Assuming that this merging process works fine, do I need to do the re-indexing process ?

[Rob_Wilcox1]

What re-indexing process?  There is no mention in the technote... and it's not necessary at all.

[John_Santana]

Thanks Rob, what I mean is the Index rebuild process in case the copy process overwriting each other.

I'll be using TeraCopy application to assist me in the file copy process.

[Rob_Wilcox1]

Well on your new disk, why not create a folder called I1, and another called I2, and copy each soure in to a different destination.

You can't overwrite anything that way.

[John_Santana]

Yes, that does make sense Rob.