Hard Disk Space

[cpjitservices]

Have a read here: Move a file share to a new server using Robocopy | oasysadmin

 

Thanks got it!!

 

I'm going to do it twice to make sure ... once with Robocopy and once with Cobian.

 

Thanks all.

[mac_shinobi]

From reading on the internet.. Dynamic Disks are being typically used for anything larger than 2TB in size, mines a lot less.

 

I reckon with permissions etc I Might be able to cheat in that I could use GParted to clone my F - into the Free space, delete F partition, resize Drive C and then Move the new partition on free space to 'F'.

 

Surely there's a way to do this without taking the DC offline though ???

 

 

As with all the other posts / comments about doing this ensure you have a good backup of the Server etc in case it goes sunny side up. Other option as per @nephilim's suggestion on one of those posts is to make a clone of the server ( image ) and restore that onto another server with a larger drive etc or into a vm with a larger partition ?

 

Not sure if that is an option ?

[chazzy2501]

I have a quick and dirty fix that you can use immediately

 

Add a new drive in VMware, then mount the drive in disk manager (on the DC) as a folder, then fill that folder up to release space on the main drive.

 

folder mount is cool

[featured_spectre]

As with all the other posts / comments about doing this ensure you have a good backup of the Server etc in case it goes sunny side up. Other option as per @nephilim's suggestion on one of those posts is to make a clone of the server ( image ) and restore that onto another server with a larger drive etc or into a vm with a larger partition ?

 

Not sure if that is an option ?

 

Why bring me into this? I didn't say anything on this thread :/

[tmcd35]

Silly question - but what is disk1? How about making disk1 a new drive F and robocopying the contents of the old F drive into that? Then you can delete both the F and Free Space at the end of drive0 - making it all unallocated, hopefully you should be able to extend the C: drive (although this might depend on the version of Windows - older versions don't like extending the system drive for some reason).

[cpjitservices]

Silly question - but what is disk1? How about making disk1 a new drive F and robocopying the contents of the old F drive into that? Then you can delete both the F and Free Space at the end of drive0 - making it all unallocated, hopefully you should be able to extend the C: drive (although this might depend on the version of Windows - older versions don't like extending the system drive for some reason).

 

Yeah not a bad idea, it's all to do with freeing up space on my VMserver too I need that spare space that I have on the Unallocated disk. It's due to be removed when Server is next shutdown.

[mac_shinobi]

Why bring me into this? I didn't say anything on this thread :/

 

You had a suggestion on the other thread with regards to making an image / clone of the original server that was running out of space on the C: Drive / partition and to image a 2nd server ( whether physical or virtual ) that has more space etc

 

If there isn't anything else you can suggest / advise etc then just ignore me tagging you