Compaq proliant 3000

[Ronald Bingham]

We are running out of space on our server running dual 18 gig drives in mirror raid

Can I change one drive at a time to a 36 gig and would the system automaticly restore the new drive?

I'm guessing this would work but am unsure the result. I'm thinking I may have to use partition magic after to increase the size of partitions, as it should recover to 18 gig only

If I replace the drive this way should I do it while live or shut down the server for each drive?

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[Steven Clementi]

Ronald:

You should be able to do this as stated. Yes, you will need some third party software to increase the partition sizes. No, you should not need to shut the server down unless the drives are not Hot Plug.

Server is running Windows?

Steven

[Ronald Bingham]

yes we are running windows 2000...which may be able to increase the size of the partition from there (thinking about it)
thank you for the reply I appreciate the knowledge I can gain from this site.

[Steven Clementi]

Ronald:

If you are going to be expanding the system partition, then you DEFINITELY need a 3rd party software. I do not think Partition Magic works on Windows Server platforms. There are some other recent threads on this subject as well, some with links to other software packages that are exclaimed to "work perfectly".

If you are expanding a Data partition, then you might be able to use DISKPART.EXE. Diskpart.exe is a free utility available from Microsoft. See this link for more information...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;325590

Here is additional information about Diskpart.exe...

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/msit/operations/diskpartnoteonit.mspx


Steven