EXTPART usage

Question

All,
Here is my situation:

Have a hardware RAID1 of two 33.6 GIG drives
These drives are DISK0 within the Windows Disk Manager and set as BASIC

The DISK0 is then set up with 3 partitions: C, D and E

Here is what windows disk manager shows for each one of them:

C is 4gig NTFS Healthy(BOOT) LOGICAL DRIVE (royal blue color) and extended partition (green background)

D is 3gig NTFS Healthy(system) Primary partition (navy blue color bar)

E is 26gig NTFS Healthy(page file) Primary partition (navy blue color bar)

Can I use extpart.exe to add space to C?

Dev Mgr · Answer

To add space to the c-drive, the freespace would have to be right next to the partition you're wanting/needing to expand. So If D: starts right where C: ends, you cannot expand, unless you were to delete the D-partition.

notrub · Answer

Yes - I was planning on doing a back-up to tape and to external usb of D and E. Then deleting D and E within windows disk manager Running extpart on c to make it bigger Then re-build D and E and copy the data back to them

PowerEdge HDD/SCSI/RAID

EXTPART usage

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