All partitions are existing. In order: small (100 Mb?) Dell partition, 16 Gb C and 250 Gb D
C is too small so I need to shrink D and move it to the right in order to expand C On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Matthew W. Ross <[email protected]>wrote: > So, if I'm reading this correctly, you're trying to make an 8 GB partition > that sits between the 16 GB dell utility partition and your C: partition? > > Why does it have to be in the middle, logically? > > > --Matt Ross > Ephrata School District > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Hank . [mailto:[email protected]] > To: > NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: > Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:46:45 -0800 > Subject: resizing server partition. > > > > I have a pe2950 running server 2003. It has a perc5 with a RAID 5 array > and > > 1 virtual disk. > > > > There is a small Dell diagnostic partition, C: is 16 Gb and d: is 250 Gb > > with 50% free. > > > > I used a gparted live CD (11.0.2). I tagged the larger partition > > (/dev/sda3) and told it to resize by adding 8000 Mb to the left. It > > announced "shrinking /dev/sda3 from 250 to 242 Gb and moving it to the > > right. > > > > 2 1/2 hours later it completed. When it rescanned it showed there was 8 > Gb > > of free space to the right of the last partition. That is exactly the > > opposite of what I told it to do and what it reported it was doing. > > > > Any thoughts/suggestions appreciated. > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
