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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 02, 2010
Resize boot/system partition
At work, we have a server that had a single hard drive. For some reason only 10GB, out of 60GB, was actually allocated. I didn't want to make the unallocated space into another drive, that is annoying. Windows 2003 does not come with the ability to resize the boot/system partition. There are may programs out there that do it, but they are expensive.
I found a reference to a Dell utility that lets you resize the partition. I tried it and it works great (and very fast). The only problem is that you must specify the amount to add, you cannot leave it blank and let it add all of the unallocated space. http://ftp.us.dell.com/App/ExtPart.exe This utility fits a very niche (but common) purpose. A single drive with a partition followed by unallocated space. It doesn't do all the fancy things that commercial partition managers do (like merge, shrink, split, resize, etc).
Posted by Chet at 11:24 AM
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That is a handy utility. Usually, I use some sort of linux based resizing tool to do the job. Some of such tools support NTFS, but of those I am fearful. Does this little program have a command line help interface, such as explaining the syntax?
Posted by Joe Schneider at 2:28 PM on Tue, Feb 2, 2010
It does, but the syntax is very basic.
Keep in mind, this is a remote machine and I only had Remote Desktop Connection access. If I had physical access, I would have used a live cd with GParted or something.
Posted by Chet at 4:17 PM on Tue, Feb 2, 2010
No physical access is a problem. It is good to hear that this tool works when connecting remotely. I will have to let the technicians at my work know about this tool.
Posted by Joe Schneider at 7:16 PM on Tue, Feb 16, 2010
http://ftp.us.dell.com/App/ExtPart.txt contains the documentation.
Posted by Joe Schneider at 7:16 PM on Tue, Feb 16, 2010
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