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      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 @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 @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 @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?

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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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