cpjitservices Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 I have 178MB free on Drive C: on my main DC. is it going to cause me any problems if I run Disk Cleanup or CCleaner on that drive ? I have my user profiles stored on an independent drive from C: so it shouldn't effect those but ... is it going to break something ? Thanks all.
edutech4schools Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 Not something I would do. I think Microsoft have a list of things that can be deleted from the DC c drive safely. If it was me I would be working out a way of re sizing the disk or rebuilding the server so it has lots of space.
cpjitservices Posted July 23, 2013 Author Posted July 23, 2013 Well I was going to expand drive C: by 200 gig, in VMWare I have attached and assigned the storage to the server but the the expand button on drive C: is greyed out so Im guessing it cant be done!
sonofsanta Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 I've run cleanmgr on DC's plenty of times - I inherited a 2003 DC that had a 12GB partition for its C drive. Brilliant. This is also a useful list of things to clear out (old update files etc.): https://help.maximumasp.com/KB/a494/my-server-says-low-space-on-c-drive.aspx 2
cpjitservices Posted July 23, 2013 Author Posted July 23, 2013 Does anyone know how I can extend the space on my drive C: - I have A new drive in Disk Manager ready to be used as an extension... where do I go from there ? Thanks all.
themightymrp Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 In VMware, could you not clone the DC's hard drive into a fresh VM but with a larger hard drive?
cpjitservices Posted July 23, 2013 Author Posted July 23, 2013 Page file is on another disc. Where's the pagefile? Ben
cpjitservices Posted July 23, 2013 Author Posted July 23, 2013 Wouldn't even know where to start, can this be done in ESXi 4 ? In VMware, could you not clone the DC's hard drive into a fresh VM but with a larger hard drive?
glennda Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 Wouldn't even know where to start, can this be done in ESXi 4 ? Yes using VMFStools
cpjitservices Posted July 23, 2013 Author Posted July 23, 2013 If I clone the drive - like a snapshot will it shut the machine down ?
glennda Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 If I clone the drive - like a snapshot will it shut the machine down ? It will need to be shutdown to clone it.
cpjitservices Posted July 23, 2013 Author Posted July 23, 2013 Ahhh OK out of hours job then... is there anyway I can do this through the VMware VCenter Client ?
birchanger Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 Is the C: drive on a virtual disk of its own? If so, why can't you just enlarge it in VMware?
cpjitservices Posted July 23, 2013 Author Posted July 23, 2013 I could try that ... Ill have a look Cheers.
cpjitservices Posted July 23, 2013 Author Posted July 23, 2013 Had a look, looks like I may be able to do that but will have to shut then server down first! Will let everyone know how it goes - I'll have to do it out of hours. Thanks everyone!
birchanger Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 Once you've done that then you need to rescan the disks from the Disk Management snapin - you should then see unallocated space at the end of the drive, and you'll be able to extend C: into it.
cpjitservices Posted July 23, 2013 Author Posted July 23, 2013 I have done that - I have the unallocated space waiting... But C: wont let me extend - upon right click the option to expand is greyed out.
cpjitservices Posted July 23, 2013 Author Posted July 23, 2013 Yes, although the options are greyed out for making Disk 1 bigger, possibly because the machine is on or it could be because this machine was migrated from a physical to a virtual. Ill power it down tonight and try it again tonight when everyone has gone home.
kjadams Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 We have recently had to increase the size of the drives on a number of our virtual servers. We were pointed to the ExtPart utility on the Dell website. It's a command line tool that expands the drive to utilise unused space on the fly. Just add more space in vm, than run this tool and you're done.
SYNACK Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 You can also use the diskpart command line utility to do it quickly but if it is the system disk - which it is - you would need to do it 'offline' by booting into a command shell like windows pe from a windows disk or a ads server. You can then just select the drive, then partition and type expand which will expand the filesystem to use the available size, usually takes just a few seconds to run the command.
bart21 Posted July 24, 2013 Posted July 24, 2013 You cannot expand the system drive © using disk part. There are two options: Extpart which is on the fly Gparted which is offline. Nick
Duke5A Posted July 24, 2013 Posted July 24, 2013 You cannot expand the system drive © using disk part. There are two options: Extpart which is on the fly Gparted which is offline. Nick You sure can; I've had to expand the boot volume with diskpart on a couple of servers this year alone. The only trick is to boot up with WinPE first - just like @SYNACK has already stated. 1
bart21 Posted July 24, 2013 Posted July 24, 2013 Ok you can but not on the fly which is what I was getting at.
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