Keep in mind you have another layer to worry about too. I'm assuming this
is a hardware mirror. If it isn't, it should be.
On your second machine you will have to create your mirror before you move
the drive over and when you move the small drive over (if it will let you)
it will be overwritten by the data from the big drive (even if empty).
I think you will have to do this one on your original machine. You pull one
drive from your array, replace it with your new big drive. Replace the 2nd
small drive so you have your mirror re-established on your new drives.
Expand the array on your new drives. Expand the partition.
Depending on your hardware this may or may not work - I've done something
similar with Compaq servers and array controllers so it can be done.
You may also want to look at your performance with a mirror given the much
larger drives you are looking at. You may want to look at moving to a RAID
5 or RAID 10 setup instead.
Disclaimer: This is the current user's personal opinion and is not made
on behalf of my employer.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Lattaruli Stender [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:54 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Expand Partition
BlankI am not sure if this is going to be a cross posting but I will ask
because one day we all will need to upgrade anyway.
I have one NT4 SP6 server with 2 sets of mirrored hot swappable hard drives.
Each set has one 9.1Gb and one 17Gb. I will need to upgrade the 17Gb ones to
181Gb as I need to place a 70Gb SQL data base on them. Machine is live and
has to be like that for the maximum time possible. This big drive also
contains software installations and file permissions are set as well.
The idea is to break the mirror, take one drive out, place it on another
system in parallel with the new 181Gb and restablish the mirror. This will
generate a 17Gb partition on the 181Gb HD, then I would use a partitioning
tool to grow it to 181Gb.
Someone told me to do a file copying and that is it. No partition growth
necessary... I doubt it is going to work.
Have you had any experience like this? Do you know any good partition
expander software. (Drive Copy goes only up to 80Gb)
Comments are welcome.
Thank you.
Alex
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