Guest rcir88 Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 I just changed my array to a RAID 5 from RAID 1+0 by adding two more hard drives to the two I already had. I am using one hard drive as a spare in the array. I expanded, migrated and extended the array on the physical drives successfully, and now I have to extend the virtual partition I have on the Microsoft Server 2003 OS. Disk Management shows C drive with 33.91 GB capacity with only 2.88 GB free space; E drive (data) with 4 MB capacity and 2 MB free space; and unallocated space of 33.91 GB. I want to extend my small E drive to include most of the 33.91 GB of unallocated space by using DiskPart. Below are the commands I entered to do this, but it obviously did not work. What did I do wrong? I copied and pasted the command prompt results. Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790] © Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>diskpart.exe Microsoft DiskPart version 5.2.3790.3959 Copyright © 1999-2001 Microsoft Corporation. On computer: SWDC DISKPART> list volume Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 F LACIE USB 2 NTFS Partition 233 GB Healthy Volume 1 D CD-ROM 0 B Healthy Volume 2 C NTFS Partition 34 GB Healthy System Volume 3 E Data NTFS Partition 4064 KB Healthy DISKPART> select volume 3 Volume 3 is the selected volume. DISKPART> size=33,800 Microsoft DiskPart version 5.2.3790.3959 ADD - Add a mirror to a simple volume. ACTIVE - Marks the current basic partition as active. ASSIGN - Assign a drive letter or mount point to the selected volume. AUTOMOUNT - Enables and disables automatic mounting of basic volumes. BREAK - Break a mirror set. CLEAN - Clear the configuration information, or all information, off the disk. CONVERT - Converts between different disk formats. CREATE - Create a volume or partition. DELETE - Delete an object. DETAIL - Provide details about an object. ATTRIBUTES - Manipulate volume attributes. EXIT - Exit DiskPart EXTEND - Extend a volume. GPT - Assigns attributes to the selected GPT partition. HELP - Prints a list of commands. IMPORT - Imports a disk group. INACTIVE - Marks the current basic partition as inactive. LIST - Prints out a list of objects. ONLINE - Online a disk that is currently marked as offline. REM - Does nothing. Used to comment scripts. REMOVE - Remove a drive letter or mount point assignment. REPAIR - Repairs a RAID-5 volume with a failed member. RESCAN - Rescan the computer looking for disks and volumes. RETAIN - Place a retained partition under a simple volume. SELECT - Move the focus to an object.
Guest John Toner [MVP] Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 Re: DiskPart and Exdending See the following: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590 Regards, John Visit my blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/jtoner "rcir88" <rcir88@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7EA3145B-5129-4A8E-B70D-118457726D7C@microsoft.com... > I just changed my array to a RAID 5 from RAID 1+0 by adding two more hard > drives to the two I already had. I am using one hard drive as a spare in the > array. I expanded, migrated and extended the array on the physical drives > successfully, and now I have to extend the virtual partition I have on the > Microsoft Server 2003 OS. Disk Management shows C drive with 33.91 GB > capacity with only 2.88 GB free space; E drive (data) with 4 MB capacity and > 2 MB free space; and unallocated space of 33.91 GB. I want to extend my > small E drive to include most of the 33.91 GB of unallocated space by using > DiskPart. Below are the commands I entered to do this, but it obviously did > not work. What did I do wrong? I copied and pasted the command prompt > results. > > Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790] > © Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp. > > C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>diskpart.exe > > Microsoft DiskPart version 5.2.3790.3959 > Copyright © 1999-2001 Microsoft Corporation. > On computer: SWDC > > DISKPART> list volume > > Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size > Status Info > ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- > -------- > Volume 0 F LACIE USB 2 NTFS Partition 233 GB Healthy > Volume 1 D CD-ROM 0 B > Healthy > Volume 2 C NTFS Partition 34 GB > Healthy System > Volume 3 E Data NTFS Partition 4064 KB > Healthy > > DISKPART> select volume 3 > > Volume 3 is the selected volume. > > DISKPART> size=33,800 > > Microsoft DiskPart version 5.2.3790.3959 > > ADD - Add a mirror to a simple volume. > ACTIVE - Marks the current basic partition as active. > ASSIGN - Assign a drive letter or mount point to the selected volume. > AUTOMOUNT - Enables and disables automatic mounting of basic volumes. > BREAK - Break a mirror set. > CLEAN - Clear the configuration information, or all information, off > the disk. > CONVERT - Converts between different disk formats. > CREATE - Create a volume or partition. > DELETE - Delete an object. > DETAIL - Provide details about an object. > ATTRIBUTES - Manipulate volume attributes. > EXIT - Exit DiskPart > EXTEND - Extend a volume. > GPT - Assigns attributes to the selected GPT partition. > HELP - Prints a list of commands. > IMPORT - Imports a disk group. > INACTIVE - Marks the current basic partition as inactive. > LIST - Prints out a list of objects. > ONLINE - Online a disk that is currently marked as offline. > REM - Does nothing. Used to comment scripts. > REMOVE - Remove a drive letter or mount point assignment. > REPAIR - Repairs a RAID-5 volume with a failed member. > RESCAN - Rescan the computer looking for disks and volumes. > RETAIN - Place a retained partition under a simple volume. > SELECT - Move the focus to an object. > > >
Guest rcir88 Posted February 20, 2008 Posted February 20, 2008 Re: DiskPart and Exdending Thank you, but, if you notice the commands I entered, you'll see I followed the MS article you cite. One thing I failed to mention, however, is that my discs are basic type. I may need to convert to dynamic type. The article states, "For Basic volumes, the unallocated space for the extension must be the next contiguous space on the same disk." I'm not sure what they mean by "same disk". This is an RAID 5 environment and though there are three physical disks, there is only one logical drive on the array. "John Toner [MVP]" wrote: > See the following: > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590 > > Regards, > John > > Visit my blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/jtoner > > "rcir88" <rcir88@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:7EA3145B-5129-4A8E-B70D-118457726D7C@microsoft.com... > > I just changed my array to a RAID 5 from RAID 1+0 by adding two more hard > > drives to the two I already had. I am using one hard drive as a spare in > the > > array. I expanded, migrated and extended the array on the physical drives > > successfully, and now I have to extend the virtual partition I have on the > > Microsoft Server 2003 OS. Disk Management shows C drive with 33.91 GB > > capacity with only 2.88 GB free space; E drive (data) with 4 MB capacity > and > > 2 MB free space; and unallocated space of 33.91 GB. I want to extend my > > small E drive to include most of the 33.91 GB of unallocated space by > using > > DiskPart. Below are the commands I entered to do this, but it obviously > did > > not work. What did I do wrong? I copied and pasted the command prompt > > results. > > > > Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790] > > © Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp. > > > > C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>diskpart.exe > > > > Microsoft DiskPart version 5.2.3790.3959 > > Copyright © 1999-2001 Microsoft Corporation. > > On computer: SWDC > > > > DISKPART> list volume > > > > Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type > Size > > Status Info > > ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- > > -------- > > Volume 0 F LACIE USB 2 NTFS Partition 233 GB Healthy > > Volume 1 D CD-ROM 0 B > > Healthy > > Volume 2 C NTFS Partition 34 > GB > > Healthy System > > Volume 3 E Data NTFS Partition 4064 KB > > Healthy > > > > DISKPART> select volume 3 > > > > Volume 3 is the selected volume. > > > > DISKPART> size=33,800 > > > > Microsoft DiskPart version 5.2.3790.3959 > > > > ADD - Add a mirror to a simple volume. > > ACTIVE - Marks the current basic partition as active. > > ASSIGN - Assign a drive letter or mount point to the selected volume. > > AUTOMOUNT - Enables and disables automatic mounting of basic volumes. > > BREAK - Break a mirror set. > > CLEAN - Clear the configuration information, or all information, off > > the disk. > > CONVERT - Converts between different disk formats. > > CREATE - Create a volume or partition. > > DELETE - Delete an object. > > DETAIL - Provide details about an object. > > ATTRIBUTES - Manipulate volume attributes. > > EXIT - Exit DiskPart > > EXTEND - Extend a volume. > > GPT - Assigns attributes to the selected GPT partition. > > HELP - Prints a list of commands. > > IMPORT - Imports a disk group. > > INACTIVE - Marks the current basic partition as inactive. > > LIST - Prints out a list of objects. > > ONLINE - Online a disk that is currently marked as offline. > > REM - Does nothing. Used to comment scripts. > > REMOVE - Remove a drive letter or mount point assignment. > > REPAIR - Repairs a RAID-5 volume with a failed member. > > RESCAN - Rescan the computer looking for disks and volumes. > > RETAIN - Place a retained partition under a simple volume. > > SELECT - Move the focus to an object. > > > > > > > > >
Guest Edwin vMierlo [MVP] Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 Re: DiskPart and Exdending If extending your filesystem is not done, you might want to use "extend filesystem" command Microsoft calls this "undocumented" but it actually documented here ; http://support.microsoft.com/?id=832316 HTH, Edwin "rcir88" <rcir88@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:66519BA0-0608-4D8C-889B-B762F0672B45@microsoft.com... > Thank you, but, if you notice the commands I entered, you'll see I followed > the MS article you cite. One thing I failed to mention, however, is that my > discs are basic type. I may need to convert to dynamic type. The article > states, "For Basic volumes, the unallocated space for the extension must be > the next contiguous space on the same disk." I'm not sure what they mean by > "same disk". This is an RAID 5 environment and though there are three > physical disks, there is only one logical drive on the array. > > "John Toner [MVP]" wrote: > > > See the following: > > > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590 > > > > Regards, > > John > > > > Visit my blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/jtoner > > > > "rcir88" <rcir88@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > news:7EA3145B-5129-4A8E-B70D-118457726D7C@microsoft.com... > > > I just changed my array to a RAID 5 from RAID 1+0 by adding two more hard > > > drives to the two I already had. I am using one hard drive as a spare in > > the > > > array. I expanded, migrated and extended the array on the physical drives > > > successfully, and now I have to extend the virtual partition I have on the > > > Microsoft Server 2003 OS. Disk Management shows C drive with 33.91 GB > > > capacity with only 2.88 GB free space; E drive (data) with 4 MB capacity > > and > > > 2 MB free space; and unallocated space of 33.91 GB. I want to extend my > > > small E drive to include most of the 33.91 GB of unallocated space by > > using > > > DiskPart. Below are the commands I entered to do this, but it obviously > > did > > > not work. What did I do wrong? I copied and pasted the command prompt > > > results. > > > > > > Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790] > > > © Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp. > > > > > > C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>diskpart.exe > > > > > > Microsoft DiskPart version 5.2.3790.3959 > > > Copyright © 1999-2001 Microsoft Corporation. > > > On computer: SWDC > > > > > > DISKPART> list volume > > > > > > Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type > > Size > > > Status Info > > > ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- > > > -------- > > > Volume 0 F LACIE USB 2 NTFS Partition 233 GB Healthy > > > Volume 1 D CD-ROM 0 B > > > Healthy > > > Volume 2 C NTFS Partition 34 > > GB > > > Healthy System > > > Volume 3 E Data NTFS Partition 4064 KB > > > Healthy > > > > > > DISKPART> select volume 3 > > > > > > Volume 3 is the selected volume. > > > > > > DISKPART> size=33,800 > > > > > > Microsoft DiskPart version 5.2.3790.3959 > > > > > > ADD - Add a mirror to a simple volume. > > > ACTIVE - Marks the current basic partition as active. > > > ASSIGN - Assign a drive letter or mount point to the selected volume. > > > AUTOMOUNT - Enables and disables automatic mounting of basic volumes. > > > BREAK - Break a mirror set. > > > CLEAN - Clear the configuration information, or all information, off > > > the disk. > > > CONVERT - Converts between different disk formats. > > > CREATE - Create a volume or partition. > > > DELETE - Delete an object. > > > DETAIL - Provide details about an object. > > > ATTRIBUTES - Manipulate volume attributes. > > > EXIT - Exit DiskPart > > > EXTEND - Extend a volume. > > > GPT - Assigns attributes to the selected GPT partition. > > > HELP - Prints a list of commands. > > > IMPORT - Imports a disk group. > > > INACTIVE - Marks the current basic partition as inactive. > > > LIST - Prints out a list of objects. > > > ONLINE - Online a disk that is currently marked as offline. > > > REM - Does nothing. Used to comment scripts. > > > REMOVE - Remove a drive letter or mount point assignment. > > > REPAIR - Repairs a RAID-5 volume with a failed member. > > > RESCAN - Rescan the computer looking for disks and volumes. > > > RETAIN - Place a retained partition under a simple volume. > > > SELECT - Move the focus to an object. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
Guest John Toner [MVP] Posted February 21, 2008 Posted February 21, 2008 Re: DiskPart and Exdending I did read the steps you used and you're missing the word "extend" from your "DISKPART> size=33,800" step as it states in 325590. This should be "DISKPART> extend size=33,800" instead. Just typing size= is a syntax error and this is why diskpart is spewing out the help page. Regards, John Visit my blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/jtoner "rcir88" <rcir88@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:66519BA0-0608-4D8C-889B-B762F0672B45@microsoft.com... > Thank you, but, if you notice the commands I entered, you'll see I followed > the MS article you cite. One thing I failed to mention, however, is that my > discs are basic type. I may need to convert to dynamic type. The article > states, "For Basic volumes, the unallocated space for the extension must be > the next contiguous space on the same disk." I'm not sure what they mean by > "same disk". This is an RAID 5 environment and though there are three > physical disks, there is only one logical drive on the array. > > "John Toner [MVP]" wrote: > > > See the following: > > > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590 > > > > Regards, > > John > > > > Visit my blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/jtoner > > > > "rcir88" <rcir88@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > news:7EA3145B-5129-4A8E-B70D-118457726D7C@microsoft.com... > > > I just changed my array to a RAID 5 from RAID 1+0 by adding two more hard > > > drives to the two I already had. I am using one hard drive as a spare in > > the > > > array. I expanded, migrated and extended the array on the physical drives > > > successfully, and now I have to extend the virtual partition I have on the > > > Microsoft Server 2003 OS. Disk Management shows C drive with 33.91 GB > > > capacity with only 2.88 GB free space; E drive (data) with 4 MB capacity > > and > > > 2 MB free space; and unallocated space of 33.91 GB. I want to extend my > > > small E drive to include most of the 33.91 GB of unallocated space by > > using > > > DiskPart. Below are the commands I entered to do this, but it obviously > > did > > > not work. What did I do wrong? I copied and pasted the command prompt > > > results. > > > > > > Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790] > > > © Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp. > > > > > > C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>diskpart.exe > > > > > > Microsoft DiskPart version 5.2.3790.3959 > > > Copyright © 1999-2001 Microsoft Corporation. > > > On computer: SWDC > > > > > > DISKPART> list volume > > > > > > Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type > > Size > > > Status Info > > > ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- > > > -------- > > > Volume 0 F LACIE USB 2 NTFS Partition 233 GB Healthy > > > Volume 1 D CD-ROM 0 B > > > Healthy > > > Volume 2 C NTFS Partition 34 > > GB > > > Healthy System > > > Volume 3 E Data NTFS Partition 4064 KB > > > Healthy > > > > > > DISKPART> select volume 3 > > > > > > Volume 3 is the selected volume. > > > > > > DISKPART> size=33,800 > > > > > > Microsoft DiskPart version 5.2.3790.3959 > > > > > > ADD - Add a mirror to a simple volume. > > > ACTIVE - Marks the current basic partition as active. > > > ASSIGN - Assign a drive letter or mount point to the selected volume. > > > AUTOMOUNT - Enables and disables automatic mounting of basic volumes. > > > BREAK - Break a mirror set. > > > CLEAN - Clear the configuration information, or all information, off > > > the disk. > > > CONVERT - Converts between different disk formats. > > > CREATE - Create a volume or partition. > > > DELETE - Delete an object. > > > DETAIL - Provide details about an object. > > > ATTRIBUTES - Manipulate volume attributes. > > > EXIT - Exit DiskPart > > > EXTEND - Extend a volume. > > > GPT - Assigns attributes to the selected GPT partition. > > > HELP - Prints a list of commands. > > > IMPORT - Imports a disk group. > > > INACTIVE - Marks the current basic partition as inactive. > > > LIST - Prints out a list of objects. > > > ONLINE - Online a disk that is currently marked as offline. > > > REM - Does nothing. Used to comment scripts. > > > REMOVE - Remove a drive letter or mount point assignment. > > > REPAIR - Repairs a RAID-5 volume with a failed member. > > > RESCAN - Rescan the computer looking for disks and volumes. > > > RETAIN - Place a retained partition under a simple volume. > > > SELECT - Move the focus to an object. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
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