I'm planning to resize one of the server partition from 40GB to 1900GB. The current partition has files on it while the space to be added is unallocated. Will my existing files be deleted?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
I'm planning to resize one of the server partition from 40GB to 1900GB. The current partition has files on it while the space to be added is unallocated. Will my existing files be deleted?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Generally resizing does not delete any files. This is certainly the case for
Those are the two most likely scenarios but if you are using some other tools then please update your question so you can receive the correct answer
No data will be deleted during extension.
As it was mentioned earlier W2k8 supports disk extension on the fly for system and non-system partitions.
W2k3 doesn't support disk extension on the fly for the system partition, volume with pagefile and some other rare cases. On W2k3 machines I prefer using extpart from DELL which does support extension of the system partitions on the fly which means no downtime and it's extremely easy to use, see example below:
For example:
To extend the g: volume by 1 GB (1024 MB) use the following command:
extpart g: 1024
The above discussion seem to assume that the space to be added is CONTIGIOUS to that of the space you want to increase. If this is true you don't have problems.
The system will NOT allow non-contiguous spaces to be expanded easily. It will essentially be two areas that you'll have to balance yourself. Of course, you will not lose any data unless you delete the original partition.