Re: Changing drive letters of Physical disk resource in W2K3 clust

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Hi Rod,

Thanks a lot for the link.
Actually we have tried Diskpart on our less critical contingency environment
for testing. Unfortunately it did not work sucessfully. Extend command does
get hanged & we have to kill the process. After killing the process we found
that Disk Managment was showing the extended size but windows explorer was
not showing the same. Unfortunately we cannot have a similar situation in our
Production env.

This is the reason we have decided to prepare a completely new bigger
partition & host it by swapping the drive letters with the original one. But
I am not sure what will happen with the Cluster Resources i.e. Physical Disk
resource & File Share resource ?. Will I have to recreate them?

Thanks,

"Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" wrote:

> Delete the L: drive and do this
> http://msmvps.com/clustering/archive/2005/07/17/57916.aspx - works great!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rod
>
> MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
> http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering Website
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>
> "FC" <FC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:54A0ED80-600A-47DF-9108-6A07228D424B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have created a new VRAID in our HP EVA3000 SAN presented to both the
> > nodes of cluster & created a new partition as L:.
> > Presently we have a Physical disk resource for existing partition F: & a
> > file share for a folder on the same partition. As the existing space on
> > F:\
> > (400GB) is getting exhausted, we have created a new bigger partition L:
> > (600GB) with the same data as of F:. What we are planning to do is, swap
> > the
> > drive letters of F: & L: so that the bigger partition L: becomes F: & we
> > have
> > sufficient space available.
> > We would like to know is wether the existing Physical disk resource & the
> > file share will be happy with the swapping in drive letters or we will
> > have
> > to create new Physical disk resource & file share resource.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
>
>
>
.

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