Re: extend volume with diskpart?

Hi John,

I did it the way you described in the meantime.
It is, in fact that simple, just type extend and that's it!

Thanks,
Markus

"John Toner [MVP]" <jtoner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Markus,

After you've selected the volume, typing EXTEND will extend the volume to
max available space on the disk. If you want to limit how much space is
used, you could use EXTEND SIZE=nnnn where nnnn is the size in MB that you
wish to add to the volume.

You can read more about this in the following KB:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590

Regards,
John

"Markus Mannheim" <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

I need to extend an existing RAID5 disk with additional space.
It's setup on a HP Smart Array controller, so extending the Logical drive
is
easy.

Just to make sure I am not doing anything wrong, I want to ask how to
use
"diskpart" properly.
Here is the configuration:

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ---------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 34 GB 0 B
* Disk 1 Online 957 GB 0 B

--> DISK 1 needs to be extended
(Note: Logical drives not extended right now, therefore free space is 0)

DISKPART> list volume

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status
Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- ---
-----
Volume 0 R CD-ROM 0 B Healthy
Volume 1 C System NTFS Partition 8001 MB Healthy
System
Volume 2 D Data1 NTFS Partition 20 GB Healthy
Volume 3 S Swap NTFS Partition 6722 MB Healthy
Pagefile
Volume 4 F Data2 NTFS Partition 957 GB Healthy

DISKPART> select volume 4

Volume 4 is the selected volume.

DISKPART> list partition

Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Extended 957 GB 8033 KB
* Partition 2 Logical 957 GB 8064 KB

DISKPART> detail volume

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ---------- ------- ------- --- ---
* Disk 1 Online 957 GB 0 B

Readonly : No
Hidden : No
No Default Drive Letter: No
Shadow Copy : No

The Volume 4 should be extended.
Do I simply type "extend" after additional harddisks are installed and
available as free space to do this?
Or are there additional parameters necessary?

For soon reply thanks in advance,

Regards,
Markus










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