Wednesday, February 2, 2011

fat32 to ntfs conversion memory requirements

We’re currently rolling out huge ammounts of workstations.
The base-image is FAT32 so at first boot, the partition is converted to NTFS.
Our monitoring system noticed 6 clients (out of currently ~8000) failed and were still FAT32.

I can’t find the exact memory requirements but here’s a guideline based on experience:
Disks >123 GB will fail on 512MB of RAM, upgrade to at least 1GB
Disks >54 GB will fail on 256MB of RAM, upgrade to at least 512MB

Thanx to Thuur for his work