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    • IRJ
      IRJ last edited by

      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?

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      • hobbit666
        hobbit666 last edited by

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

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          Alex Sage @IRJ last edited by

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

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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?

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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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                          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?

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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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