Thanks! I'll certainly look into your suggestions. I may just end up getting an additional server, building that array to host a single logical drive. I assume this is how most arrays are configured??? 1 logical drive per array?
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 2:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Expand an array that contains the system partition? On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:50 AM, David Mazzaccaro <[email protected]> wrote: > (In Disk Management, they are seen as DISK0 and Disk1) It sounds like the RAID controller is presenting your two "logical drives" to the OS/software as if they were separate physical disks. No software tool (like Partition Manager) is going to be able to resize what your RAID controller is doing. Additionally, most RAID controllers don't allow you to "shrink" their "logical disks". So you can't easily take storage from E: and give it to C:. You *might* be able to backup E: to other media, nuke E: and the RAID logical disk holding it, and then expand the logical disk holding C: to use the space formerly used by the logical disk holding E:, recreate the E: partition, and then restore. Whether or not this would work will depend on what the RAID controller can do. > HP is telling me no - because you cannot expand an array that contains > a Windows system partition. That sounds like an artificial limitation. RAID controllers work at the block device level, and shouldn't know or care about things like partitions, filesystems, and OSes. Do they have OS-independent RAID management tools in firmware (BIOS)? If so, can you can use that to non-destructively grow the RAID logical disk holding the C: partition? If so, you should be able to do *that*, and then use Partition Manager to actually resize the filesystem to fill the now-bigger "disk". Or if they have RAID management software for Linux, boot Linux and use that to resize RAID "logical disk". -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
