Resizing a RAID 5 array
I'm trying to resize the boot partition on a Dell Poweredge 2550 server running a PERC3/Di RAID controller. We have 3 drives in this machine and the array has two logical drives C: and E:. The C drive only has like 4 gigs available while the E drive has almost 30 gigs free. I'm using Volume Manager 2.0 but it won't let me redistribute the free space between the two logical drives. I tried to resize the larger E: drive down to about 26 gigs so I have 4 gigs of unallocated space. However it wont let me move or redistribute this space to the C: partition. Any ideas?
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Im going to try this tonight after hours but the plan is to reallocate the unused space to the C: drive, then resize it smaller to about 7.5 gigs, the resize the adjacent E: drive to use all that unused space. Ill let you know how it goes.
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Did you have a chance to try to expand the drive yet?
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Using Volume Manager 2.0 we were able to successfully resize the disks. Oddly enough these machines had the same hardware and almost the same amount of data but one took much longer to resize than the other. In any case it was a success. Volume Manager works pretty well but you do have to shuffle the free space around from partition to partition. It wouldnt let me resize the C: partition using the 20 odd gigs of unallocated space so I first had use the free space wizard to give C: all the unallocated space, then resize C: down to 7.5 gigs, then resize the E: partition to include the extra space. I wish we could have just added the 3.5 gigs of space we wanted in one step, but hey it worked.
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Thanx,
The reason the resizing took longer on one machine than on the other was probably becausethere was more running on that PC.
The reason the resizing took longer on one machine than on the other was probably becausethere was more running on that PC.
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