Increase drive size using ext part
so my drives are on E:. I am using extpart like so: extpart E: 20480 but it errors out telling me it does not exist or can't connect. disk manager shows 22 GB unallocated. any ideas on why it won't work or another method of increasing the drive size?
thx
thx
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Thanks. Very extensive. I guess I'll postpone the 10:30 backup to do this. I've used ext part several times on live servers without issue. This particular drive is on E. guess I'll attach to another server and try disk part as I've done that before but moved to ext part by dell to avoid doing all this. Still weird that it has worked on several other live servers. Anyway... Thanks again.
Personally, never like using Extpart on live production servers.
But each to their own.
Just make sure you have a valid backup, before making changes to partition structure.
But each to their own.
Just make sure you have a valid backup, before making changes to partition structure.
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Yeah. I was skeptical years ago as well but a coworker at a previous job used it all the time without issue and showed me how. However, being that this is exchange, I don't want to take any chances. I'll use disk part. Will running a backup take up space on my database drive (E drive) or not? If not, I'll do this after it runs. If so, I may have to take my chances without a backup, at least since last night's. I use Veeam.
Thx again
Thx again
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thanks. I have not been able to do anything as I wanted to run a backup first.
however, I am down to 1 GB on my store drives and am afraid it may go down to 0 space left and prevent email flow until I can add space. I am hopeful after the backup runs that it will regain some space, but I am not sure.
however, I am down to 1 GB on my store drives and am afraid it may go down to 0 space left and prevent email flow until I can add space. I am hopeful after the backup runs that it will regain some space, but I am not sure.
the logs should clear, but depends on how large the db becomes....
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thanks all. used diskpart. just typed in the command and chose to increase the E drive (where my stores are) and it worked. didn't power down and add to another server before doing so as it wasn't the C drive. likely won't use extpart again.
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