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Decrease Volume Size
Can I decrease the volume size for some of my windows drives? I have seen KBs stating both. I am using AWS with Windows Server 2016. Does it matter if they are MBR or GUID?
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Gerald Connolly
Just make sure you have a valid backup before trying any of this!
my question is why do you want to change the volume size? The only rationale that I can understand is to add another volume onto the disk. Having multiple volumes on a disk means that the i/o is split between the 2 volumes. Back in the day when you were limited in the # of physical disks due to hardware limitations I can understand this.
It will not decrease your aws storage costs.
It will not decrease your aws storage costs.
my question is why do you want to change the volume size? The only rationale that I can understand is to add another volume onto the disk.
Not necessarily
I ran into a issue a year ago where a servers C partition was almost maxed out and the drives second partition (E) had a massive amount of unused space
Freeing up 100G from the E partition and re-allocating it to the C partition resolved the servers issues caused by low disk space
@kenfcamp.. I have no idea why you had 2 volumes on 1 physical disk. This was probably a physical disk in which you were physical drive limited. The author is using virtual disks (re AWS) which do not have this limitation.
@David Johnson... There was no drive limitation, it was a 600G drive as partitioned by dell when they received it
The point I was trying to make, is that there are more reasons to want to expand or shrink a volume other than "adding" another volume
The disk being physical vs virtual is irrelevant
The point I was trying to make, is that there are more reasons to want to expand or shrink a volume other than "adding" another volume
The disk being physical vs virtual is irrelevant
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