Map folder to drive letter instead of partitioning disk

From: NK (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/19/03 

Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:48:49 -0800

Hello,

I have run into a problem and I wanted to run my idea by
the group to receive your feedback on it.

I would like to follow the best practice of putting the
system, web content and log files in different drive
partitions. However, I have to do this on an existing web
server with all these three on the C drive. I don't have
the option to rebuild it, nor do I have Partition Magic
or any similar tool. So, using separate drive partitions
is not possible.

Instead of partitioning my disk, if I share the Inetpub
folder and then map it to a different drive letter, would
I achieve the same effect (mitigation of directory
traversal attacks) as if I were to use a genuine drive
partition? Using a different partition for the logs would
prevent a denial of service attack (by filling up the
system partition) from taking place. Is this also
achievable by using a mapped drive?

Thanks in advance! I appreciate your help.

Best regards,
NK

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