Shrinking and Extending Disks
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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 2Start back up and use expand in windows
AS I SAID THEORY
I've never done this myself lol. -
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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Leave c alone. Enpand D in VMware then in windows. Done
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@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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@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. -
@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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@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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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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@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. -
@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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@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?
Give or take a bit yeah
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That worked! Thanks guys
