Live 2012 server upgrade 2012 r2?

[maniac]

Could you not use shrink on the larger volume and then extend the smaller one?

 

Or is gpaeted better? Will it read the raid volumes?

 

You can't resize the system volume on Windows while it is running, that's why you have to use Gparted. but that's exactly what you would do, providing they share the same physical disc system, you can shrink the F:\ and expand the C:\. windows is normally OK with this, but occasionally it can throw a wobbly at having the system partition resized. It's only happened to me once however on a Server 2008 box and I think the newer editions of windows server are much more tolerant to this sort of adjustment. And yes it should read your RAID setup fine unless it's a really obscure controller.

 

Download and boot the server from it and see what it comes up with, you can play around with the adjustment before committing them so you'll be able to see what you can actually do. Be very careful thou, it is a very powerful piece of software and you can quickly brick your server if you do it wrong. Just make doubly sure you have a backup before attempting any work of this sort on a production server, and more importantly make sure the backup is good and you know how to restore it should the worst happen.

 

EDIT - actually reading about it, you CAN resize the system volume while it is running, but only if the unallocated space on the disc is available next to the exisitng partition. Luckily Gparted allows you to move the partitions around on the disc so you should be able to create unallocated space at the end of the existing partition and expand the partition into it. I must admit it's a while since I've had to do this as all my machines are virtualised now so playing with partitions like this is almost a thing of the past, but I do remember Gparted being invaluable for this.

Edited August 26, 2014 by maniac