Server Magic is a partition expander for NT servers.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Lattaruli Stender [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:54 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Expand Partition
>
>
> BlankI am not sure if this is going to be a cross posting but I will ask
> because one day we all will need to upgrade anyway.
>
> I have one NT4 SP6 server with 2 sets of mirrored hot swappable
> hard drives.
> Each set has one 9.1Gb and one 17Gb. I will need to upgrade the
> 17Gb ones to
> 181Gb as I need to place a 70Gb SQL data base on them. Machine is live and
> has to be like that for the maximum time possible. This big drive also
> contains software installations and file permissions are set as well.
>
> The idea is to break the mirror, take one drive out, place it on another
> system in parallel with the new 181Gb and restablish the mirror.
> This will
> generate a 17Gb partition on the 181Gb HD, then I would use a partitioning
> tool to grow it to 181Gb.
>
> Someone told me to do a file copying and that is it. No partition growth
> necessary... I doubt it is going to work.
>
> Have you had any experience like this? Do you know any good partition
> expander software. (Drive Copy goes only up to 80Gb)
>
> Comments are welcome.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Alex
>
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