Shrinking and Extending Disks

[IRJ]

I would like to shrink the by 50GB and use it to extend the E: drive or possible just add more diskspace from Vsphere and use extra disk space to extend E: . What is the proper procedure for this? Do I need to convert the disks to dynamic?

[hobbit666]

Don't think you will be able as it looks like they are two different harddrives??

[Alex Sage]

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

[hobbit666]

Is this a physical machine? or VM?

[IRJ]

@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.

[IRJ]

@hobbit666 said in Shrinking and Extending Disks:

Is this a physical machine? or VM?

VM

[hobbit666]

@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?

[IRJ]

@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?

[hobbit666]

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.

[hobbit666]

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

[Alex Sage]

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

[IRJ]

@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.

[hobbit666]

@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.

[IRJ]

@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.

[hobbit666]

@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

[DenisKelley]

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.

[IRJ]

@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.

[IRJ]

@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?

[hobbit666]

@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?

Give or take a bit yeah

[IRJ]

That worked! Thanks guys