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March 28th, 2006 11:00
Increasing disk space within raid 5
Ok here is the problem:
We have a Power edge 2600 Server wich is running a raid5 configuration with 6 discs.
There are 2 dynamic disks made C: and D:
C: is 10 GB with 1 gb free and D: is 331 GB with 150 GB free.
We need to increase the size on C: to 30 GB and we would like to use the free space of D: for this.
Would this be possible with the openmanage software od the microsoft disc manager and if this is possible how would this be possible??
THANX
Dennis
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March 29th, 2006 19:00
With dynamic disks you can expand a partition, but you cannot shrink a partition.
There are a few other options though. You could consider using mount points, but you'd have to create a new partition and instead of mounting it as a drive letter, you'd mount it as an empty folder into an existing NTFS partition (e.g. copying the documents and settings folder to a partition and then mounting that partition as that folder).
Alternatively, back up the data on your large partition, delete it, expand the C-drive by however much you want to give it, and then recreate the larger partition and restore the data.