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Re: How can I shrink IXA file space

Increasing the system drive (boot drive) is also not easy but this is a Microsoft restriction. The 'cheaters' way to do it though is to create a new storage space, link it to the iXS/IXA. Now open up Disk Mangler in Windows but instead of asigning the thing a drive letter mount it in a directory of the "C" drive (a-la Unix). If you work it right you should be able to find a directory tree with a lot of stuff, or at least one that's taking the growth, This way even though the boot drive itself didn't get bigger, you've at least given the system some growth space. I have done this several times with good results.
Anything but the boot drive is a cake walk. Connect the new drive, use disk mangler to flag is as a Dynamic Volum (you DID do that to the drive that needs expanding yes?) Then just create a volume set by adding this new 'disk unit' to the previous one. Shazaam now it's bigger. 

 - Larry.

ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:





Does this hold true if you are trying to increase the size of a system
drive on an IXS?  I've got one where I was planning to:

Vary off the server
Create a storage space of a larger size as a copy of the system drive in
question
Unlink the original system drive
Link the new drive in place of the system drive (with seq. number 3, etc.)

Is it only a problem if you're trying to 'shrink' the drive?


Evan,

 Depends if this is the boot drive for the server or just a data drive.

 If the boot drive, the best way is what you have already mentioned and
that is to reload the server. Sucks yes. You may be able to use a
product such as partition magic to copy the data in the server storage
space (aka 'Disk') to a new smaller space, then relink them to the
server. I've not tried this and anticipate that there could be issues
because this is an active boot partition.

 If this is not the boot drive then you can link in a new space, copy
the data to that new smaller space, then unlink the old space and use
windows disk management to change the drive letter of the new one back
to what is expected by the applications. This is pretty straight forward
in this case.

 - Larry

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