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2009-09-25 13:29:36
Pug
UR father's brother's nephew's former roommate
+652|6802|Texas - Bigger than France
Please some advice.

I have to resize a partition on an active server.

Drive C has 0.9 GB free
Drive D has 530 GB free

I would prefer not to uninstall and reinstall anything, nor restore from backup.

Drive C needs to add 10 GB.

What programs are out there?  What do you need to know from me to answer this question?

I'm not a tech guy...I just don't want to get a massive bill from our server guy.

Thanks in advance.
2009-09-26 02:59:41
Freezer7Pro
I don't come here a lot anymore.
+1,447|6457|Winland

If the server is mission-critical, I'd call the server guy if I were you.

If not, we need to know what OS it's running and what file systems the drives are.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
2009-09-28 06:20:05
Pug
UR father's brother's nephew's former roommate
+652|6802|Texas - Bigger than France
Yeah, its mission critical.  But that doesn't mean I trust the server guy.

Running Windows Server 2003 (NT I think)
2009-09-28 08:50:16
Agent_Dung_Bomb
Member
+302|6996|Salt Lake City

There are tools that will adjust partitions on the fly, but you always take a chance when you alter a partition like that.

http://www.avanquest.com/USA/software/p … agodLklr-Q

http://www.partition-tool.com/partition … ftware.htm

http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/produ … kdirector/

Now these range everywhere from $50 to $600, and I would certainly think very carefully about what you choose.  Spending $600 on software may seem like a lot, but you don't dink around with mission critical servers unless you are very sure of the tools you are using.  Using cheap software that may cause system failures is going to cost a lot more than using good software to begin with.

And yes, I know there are freeware/shareware tools that can do this, but do you really want to trust a mission critical server to freeware/shareware?
2009-09-28 09:27:58
steelie34
pub hero!
+603|6641|the land of bourbon

Pug wrote:

Yeah, its mission critical.  But that doesn't mean I trust the server guy.
isn't this the reason you have a server guy? 

for a quick and dirty add you can always mount a blank partition as a folder on another drive.  i've used it before to put my 'program files' folder on a faster hard drive, with no change to the way windows see the file system structure

Last edited by steelie34 (2009-09-28 10:00:21)

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