Extending a disk system has never been so easy ...
Find with a system disk space is not a problem. In virtual environment it is manageable with the expansion of the disk, but it is required downtime to enlarge the partition logic. Not always ....
This time he helps us in, with a software so small however powerful, can expand a logical drive hot, ie with the operating system on.
Obviously there are some limitations: the disc must be Basic (does not support dynamic disks) must be in NTFS and must expand at least 8MB of course only on Windows systems. The utility in question calls ExtPart and was created to support systems of the PowerVault series 750, 755, 770 and 775, but it magically works with virtual machines. ExtPart is dated July 30, 2003, so there is some concern about the compatibility with newer systems.
The use of this tool is very simple: once you have unpacked the files in a folder, open a command prompt, navigate to the folder where you extracted the executable and run the command with the following parameters:
extpart volume size
The archive where you will find a short readme explains everything. As always it is highly advisable to make a snapshot before changing discs.
Dell ExtPart (17.5 KiB)
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