I would assume you made a backup before you added the disk space to the raid container, besides your regular backups. So with this fully tested backup as a disaster recovery option, diskpart is generally pretty safe.
There are a few things to keep in mind though (based on
this Microsoft KB article):
- you cannot extend a system disk or boot disk
- you cannot extend a partition that has a swapfile on it
- you can only extend the last partition on the disk
- you can only extend beyond the 2 TB marker if the disk was converted to GPT prior to putting the first partition on it
- if you're running a cluster, be 100% sure to follow
these steps 100%
The process is near instant after the last command (except for a cluster setup where there are some other steps after the diskpart-part).
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There are a few things to keep in mind though (based on this Microsoft KB article):
- you cannot extend a system disk or boot disk
- you cannot extend a partition that has a swapfile on it
- you can only extend the last partition on the disk
- you can only extend beyond the 2 TB marker if the disk was converted to GPT prior to putting the first partition on it
- if you're running a cluster, be 100% sure to follow these steps 100%
The process is near instant after the last command (except for a cluster setup where there are some other steps after the diskpart-part).
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November 1st, 2007 16:00
- you can only extend the last partition on the disk
Right now the unallocated space shows at the end of Virtual Disk2 (I have a RAID 1 volume as Virt Disk 1 and another RAID 1 volume as Virt Disk 3).
Does this mean I can't run diskpart?
-J.-