Partition resize on raid 5

You have 2 choices and your choice depends on which is more cost efficient for you:

- purchase something like Acronis Disk Director for servers and shrink the D drive at the beginning of the partition and grow the C drive with the freed up space

- back up everything on your D-drive, delete your D-drive partition, download extpart.exe from support.dell.com, extract the files, in a dos-windows run a "extpart c: size_you_want_to_add_in_MBs" (e.g. "extpart c: 8192" to add 8GB), then recreate your D-drive and restore the data to it.

With either option you always want to have full backups of your data, just in case something doesn't go 100% according to plan.

wrogers...

Paragon will also do the job, never used Easus. Before I would use any util I would create some room on the C: partition. I am sure you could cleanup/ free at least 1.5 gigs, as I worked on many  W2000 servers with only 4.9 Gig.   

This is a very small business server and I have looked all over for non necessary files and connot find any thing I can remove. The Windows server 2003 folder is 5+ GB alone, then add my necessary business software and the drive is consumed.  For some reason today my C drive shows only 310 MB left. Restoring the Spftware should I lose it would be a nightmare. I inherited this server and software and dont have a clue how to restore on a moments notice. Any suggestions? Also is thier software that would Image the C drive alone to a single drive or an external bootable drive?

How easy is Acronis to use and do you have any idea how much space is needed to install?

I have found that the pagefile files (pagefile.sys) which in  your VIEW settings is typically set to HIDDEN, default to the C: drive.

You will have to do a server reboot, but for all my servers, I have moved my pagefile.sys files to the D: or E: partitions and this saves 2-4GB depending on the size of the pagefile.

However, I'm in the same situation as you all above.  I have a poweredge 1900.  I've installed the Dell Openmanage utilities, and I don't see a way to resize partitions to accomodate future growth needs.  I have an old server which I inherited when I took this position that had free space and allowed one to 'extend' volume sizes as needed.

Does anyone have advice on this?

This problem is easy to solve, just resize other partitions to be smaller and get some unallocated space behind the system partition, after that you can expand the OS partition. You may try partition magic alternative, with which you just need to drag and move on the disk map, very clear.

Here is a tutorial how to resize partitions on raid 5

http://www.partition-tool.com/easeus-partition-manager/help/resizing-and-moving-partition.htm

670MB is somewhat too small for a system partition.

Which system do you use? If you are use Windows Vista or some other more advanced system, you can extend and shrink the disk with the Disk Management tool.

If you use some other system, I still recommend the partition software which can ease the partitioning process. However, to make a bacup of the data to avoid any data loss is needed.

How to backup hard drive partition?

After all the data has been backed up, you may extend the system partition without any worry!

How to resize RAID 5 array?