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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%\Microsoft shared\Web server extensions\12\bin

4. Type the following and then press ENTER to move the content index to the new location.

stsadm –o editssp –title sspname -indexlocation drive:\folder

where sspname is the name of the shared services provider that is associated with the content index.

drive:\folder is the new location to which you want to move the content index.

For example : stsadm -o editssp -title Sharedservices1 -indexlocation e:\Data\MOSS_Search_Index

Important:

The –indexlocation property must refer to an NTFS partition on a hard drive or SAN that is attached to the index server.

5. After the command prompt displays "Operation completed successfully" proceed to the next step.

(Optional) Delete the content index from the original location.

You can choose to delete the content index from the original location. To do so, use Windows Explorer to delete the original file location.

Resume crawls and restore

If you paused crawls earlier, you can now resume those crawls.

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