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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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