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Ayman Altounji
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raid5 extension

I have to upgrade a raid 5 configuration by changing 3x 9.1Gb into 3x 18.2 Gb disks. I red about changing one at a time and booting each time for rebuild, I red too using Array config utility for expanding the size of the unit but nowhere I found about partitions in Win 2000. My server use the logical unit from the raid 5 as a Basic Disk containing 2 partitions system (3.95Gb) and data (12.95Gb). Unfortunately disk has not been configured as dynamic before partitions where created. I want to increase the size of both partitions with the amount of space the change of the logical volume size permits. Can someone show me the way ?
Regards, Bernard
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Sunil Jerath
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Re: raid5 extension

Hello,
You need to use a third party utility e.g. partition magic for this operation. Since this operation is data destructive you need to make sure that you have a good backup.

Regards,