Solved Shrinking and Extending Disks

[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