Re: diskpart to extend basic partition "volume may not be extended

Tina,

you might want to create a seperate post for you DFS question, this to get
the DFS experts responding
Make sure you post with a "catching" subject line.

;-)


Good Luck,
Edwin.



"Tina" <tina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks so much Edwin. You were a huge help. I will do as you suggested and
delete the 23 gb partition as soon as I figure out how to move the dfs
data
to the other partition correctly.
Thanks again!
Tina

"Edwin vMierlo [MVP]" wrote:

I will leave it up to an DFS expert to answer that... (sorry)



"Tina" <tina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My only concern with deleting the 23 GB partition, is I have DFS setup
(hub
and spoke setup) on this partition and this server is the DFS hub. The
23
GB
partition only contains 3 GB of data. Can I simply copy the data
including
the DFS share to the 80 GB partition without issue? The DFS share will
have
the same share name which is "setups." If I can just copy the DFS
folder
to
the 80 gb partition, I can delete the 23 gb partition and extend the
80 gb
partition to take the whole space and leave the DFS share on this
partition.
Again, I want to make sure I won't have DFS replication issues.....
What
do
you think?





"Edwin vMierlo [MVP]" wrote:

no, the other way around, delete the 23 GB partition (well, backup
first
obviously)
then you have space to grow the 80GB partition (also, after backup,
you
always want to ensure you have backups, just in case)




"Tina" <tina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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That makes sense. I guess the only thing I can do is delete the 80
gb
partition which will add to the current unallocated space of 34
GB. I
should
then have 114 GB unallocated space. I can create a new partition,
format
it
NTFS and restore the data from backup. Do you see any issues with
doing
this?
Thanks
Tina

"Edwin vMierlo [MVP]" wrote:

Aha !

See this

DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 80 GB 32 KB
Partition 2 Primary 23 GB 80 GB


So the first partition is Partition1, and Partition 2 starts at
80Gb
offset,
after partition 1

This means that Partition 1 (and therefore volume 0) cannot
grow, as
it
is
"blocked" by Partition 2 (which is volume 1)

so, the free space is after partition2/volume1.... so you can
grow
volume 1
(not volume 0)

hope this explains it...
Rgds,
Edwin.



"Tina" <tina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Edwin,
1)correct, this is not the system or boot disk
2)correct, does not say extended
3)diskpart results:
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size
Status
Info

---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- -------
--------- --------
Volume 0 E 80MS1 NTFS Partition 80 GB Healthy
Volume 1 F 22MS1 NTFS Partition 23 GB Healthy
Volume 2 C OS NTFS Partition 17 GB
Healthy
System
Volume 3 D CD-ROM 0 B
Healthy

DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt



-------- ---------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 17 GB 8001 KB
Disk 1 Online 137 GB 34 GB

DISKPART> select disk 1
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 80 GB 32 KB
Partition 2 Primary 23 GB 80 GB

The command I used to extend the basic volume:
diskpart
list volume
select volume 0
extend
(I also tried extend size=20480)

The unallocated space is 34.18 GB, unformatted. I also tried
formatting it
as NTFS and tried again with no success.
Thanks




"Edwin vMierlo [MVP]" wrote:

hmmm... I ran into some inconsistencies with Diskpart
before.

sometimes it doesn't do what it should do, and this is what
I
did to
correct
this.

1) this is not a system or boot disk !! this is important.
2) if you look at Disk Management, you see the partition at
its
original
size (not extended)
3) in Diskpart, you will see the partition (not volume) at
its
extended
size
4) try Diskpart "extend filesystem" command (not documented
in
the
diskpart
help)... see KB 832316
5) if that does not extend your filesystem the open a
support
case
with
Microsoft and ask for a utility called "fsextend.exe" which
will
extend
your
file systme.

The situation I encountered I had to use the last option as
all
others
did
fail. So this "fsextend.exe" utility does actually do
something
else
then
Diskpart..... funny as both are MS tools, you would think
that
the
fsextend.exe functionality is build into Diskpart.

HTH,
Edwin.


"Tina" <tina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I ran diskpart to extend the partition and received the
errors
listed
in
my
initial post. Am I receiving this error due to my raid
configuration
1E
which
is stripe and mirror?
Thanks
Tina

""Ken Zhao [MSFT]"" wrote:

Hi Tina,

If the SP2 has been applied, Diskpart.exe should be used
to
extend
logical
drive.

Thanks & Regards,

Ken Zhao

Microsoft Online Support
Microsoft Global Technical Support Center

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| Yes SP2 is installed on the server as well as all the
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| Thanks!
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| ""Ken Zhao [MSFT]"" wrote:
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| > Hello Tina,
| >
| > Thank you for using newsgroup!
| >
| > From your post, I am not sure if you have applied
SP1 on
the
Windows
Server
| > 2003 server. If not, I suggest you check the
following
article
and
update
| > the version of Diskpart:
| > 841650: The DiskPart.exe utility cannot extend a
logical
drive
in an
| > extended partition in Windows Server 2003
| > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841650/en-us
| >
| > Or please apply SP1 on the server to see if it can
help.
| >
| > Thanks & Regards,
| >
| > Ken Zhao
| >
| > Microsoft Online Support
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