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siphroma

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June 21st, 2007 01:00

C Drive filling Up

​ I have a client who has a poweredge 2800 Server with a 3 Drive raid 5 array. Dell Split the array into 3 Drives a 12 Gig C Drive and an Extended D and E Drive that are both about 60gigs each. The C drive contains Windows Small Business Server 2003 and SQL server and Is almost Full. Is there a way to extend the C drive. Also is there a size limit or something that would require you to setup a system this way with windows server SB 03. ​

siphroma

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June 21st, 2007 15:00

Thanks for the info. THe D and E drive are not full and we are thinking about moving the SQL databases to the D partition. So will Diskpart let me raise the size of the partition without destroying the DATA or will I have to Backup change partitions then Restore the backup.

WebExec

135 Posts

June 21st, 2007 15:00

This is pretty normal for Dell, 12g system partitions.
 
You can extend it but of course your taking risks. You didn't mention if D or E are full or used. If your storing your SQL databases on the C drive (default) you might want to move them an alleviate your space issue, if not then I guess extending is a good idea.
 
In a nutshell you'll want to boot to dos or WinPE and use the diskpart utility to change the partition sizes. So you'll end up reducing the size of D or E and then extending that space into C. I recommend the ultimate boot CD ( http://www.ubcd4win.com/).
 
By default diskpart will not let you extend a system partition so you'll need to use the /override switch when extending.
 
 

WebExec

135 Posts

June 21st, 2007 16:00

It should NOT destroy the data. Backup anyway though :)

DELL-Dennis

101 Posts

June 22nd, 2007 10:00


@WebExec wrote:
It should NOT destroy the data. Backup anyway though :)




I would agree that whenever you're doing anything with resizing partitions and such on a system with critical data, it's even more important than normal operations to have a backup of your data, just in case.

DELL-Sander

2 Posts

June 26th, 2007 21:00

This whitepaper has a good description of the process to move files, databases etc. from your C: drive:


Message Edited by DELL-Sander on 06-26-2007 05:04 PM

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