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    • hobbit666
      hobbit666 last edited by

      Is this a physical machine? or VM?

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      • IRJ
        IRJ @Alex Sage last edited by

        @aaronstuder said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

        @IRJ why can't you just expand the E and leave C the same?

        I could do that, but 😄 has extra space it doesn't really need. Everytime I add more space in Vsphere, I always seem to have issues extending it.

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        • IRJ
          IRJ @hobbit666 last edited by

          @hobbit666 said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

          Is this a physical machine? or VM?

          VM

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          • hobbit666
            hobbit666 @IRJ last edited by

            @IRJ said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

            @hobbit666 said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

            Is this a physical machine? or VM?

            VM

            Is it a single "Virtual Disk" or is each Drive a separate Virtual Disk?

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            • IRJ
              IRJ @hobbit666 last edited by

              @hobbit666 said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

              @IRJ said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

              @hobbit666 said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

              Is this a physical machine? or VM?

              VM

              Is it a single "Virtual Disk" or is each Drive a separate Virtual Disk?

              0_1464361576727_upload-ee653cff-0689-460f-b4e1-8fc2af737d31

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              • hobbit666
                hobbit666 last edited by

                I've never done it, but the theory is :-

                Decrease the size of 😄 within windows. Shut down VM
                Then in the settings
                decrease Hard Drive 1
                increase Hard Drive 2

                Start back up and use expand in windows 🙂

                AS I SAID THEORY 😄 I've never done this myself lol.

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                • hobbit666
                  hobbit666 last edited by

                  You could also use something like gparted to do the resizing if you can't in windows. but make sure BACKUPS!!!!

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                  • A
                    Alex Sage last edited by Alex Sage

                    Leave c alone. Enpand D in VMware then in windows. Done

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                    • IRJ
                      IRJ @Alex Sage last edited by

                      @aaronstuder said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                      Leave c alone. Enpand D in VMware then in windows. Done

                      Well it would be E:

                      I have tried doing this in the past with other servers, and when I boot back up extend always seems to be grayed out. I can try it again.

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                      • hobbit666
                        hobbit666 @IRJ last edited by

                        @IRJ said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                        @aaronstuder said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                        Leave c alone. Enpand D in VMware then in windows. Done

                        Well it would be E:

                        I have tried doing this in the past with other servers, and when I boot back up extend always seems to be grayed out. I can try it again.

                        Try it again 😄 what's the worst that could happen lol. Could also try the gparted option.

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                        • IRJ
                          IRJ @hobbit666 last edited by

                          @hobbit666 said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                          @IRJ said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                          @aaronstuder said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                          Leave c alone. Enpand D in VMware then in windows. Done

                          Well it would be E:

                          I have tried doing this in the past with other servers, and when I boot back up extend always seems to be grayed out. I can try it again.

                          Try it again 😄 what's the worst that could happen lol. Could also try the gparted option.

                          I will try it. I am just waiting to hear back from the users to make sure I can reboot it and kick them off.

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                          • hobbit666
                            hobbit666 @IRJ last edited by

                            @IRJ said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                            @hobbit666 said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                            @IRJ said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                            @aaronstuder said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                            Leave c alone. Enpand D in VMware then in windows. Done

                            Well it would be E:

                            I have tried doing this in the past with other servers, and when I boot back up extend always seems to be grayed out. I can try it again.

                            Try it again 😄 what's the worst that could happen lol. Could also try the gparted option.

                            I will try it. I am just waiting to hear back from the users to make sure I can reboot it and kick them off.

                            Oh doing it live! risky business 😄

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                            • DenisKelley
                              DenisKelley last edited by

                              C and D are physically separate disks or vmdk files. They are sitting on a VMware datastore. You could individually shrink C and grow D with a utility, but you can't chunk off space from C logically and give it to D. Remember these are just files logically presented to your VM as disks.

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                              • IRJ
                                IRJ @hobbit666 last edited by

                                @hobbit666 said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                                @IRJ said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                                @hobbit666 said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                                @IRJ said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                                @aaronstuder said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                                Leave c alone. Enpand D in VMware then in windows. Done

                                Well it would be E:

                                I have tried doing this in the past with other servers, and when I boot back up extend always seems to be grayed out. I can try it again.

                                Try it again 😄 what's the worst that could happen lol. Could also try the gparted option.

                                I will try it. I am just waiting to hear back from the users to make sure I can reboot it and kick them off.

                                Oh doing it live! risky business 😄

                                It will only effect two users 🙂 and chances are they aren't in the system now. I am just waiting to hear back.

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                                • IRJ
                                  IRJ @DenisKelley last edited by

                                  @DenisKelley said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                                  C and D are physically separate disks or vmdk files. They are sitting on a VMware datastore. You could individually shrink C and grow D with a utility, but you can't chunk off space from C logically and give it to D. Remember these are just files logically presented to your VM as disks.

                                  In theory I should be able to extend that drive to 540GB, correct?

                                  0_1464363678197_upload-e66024a7-d30e-461d-8970-e621ef0cc3e8

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                                  • hobbit666
                                    hobbit666 @IRJ last edited by

                                    @IRJ said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                                    @DenisKelley said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

                                    C and D are physically separate disks or vmdk files. They are sitting on a VMware datastore. You could individually shrink C and grow D with a utility, but you can't chunk off space from C logically and give it to D. Remember these are just files logically presented to your VM as disks.

                                    In theory I should be able to extend that drive to 540GB, correct?

                                    0_1464363678197_upload-e66024a7-d30e-461d-8970-e621ef0cc3e8

                                    Give or take a bit yeah

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                                    • IRJ
                                      IRJ last edited by

                                      That worked! Thanks guys

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