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Change the location of the index file in MOSS 2007

Last week I noticed in our Production environment that the index server is running with low disk space. After that I tried to change the drive location of index. The below are the steps to change the index location: Prerequisites: · Pause all content sources that are currently crawling content. After the index has been moved to the new location we have to resume the crawl that we have paused. Change the location of the index file Perform the following steps to change the index file location. Note that this procedure copies the index to the new location – it does not delete the content index in the original location. You can choose to delete the files in the original location later in this article. 1. Log on to the index server as a member of the Administrators group. 2. Open a command prompt. 3. Type the following and then press ENTER to go to the folder that contains the stsadm.exe command-line utility. cd %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsof...