Comments on: The best thing I’ve found all year….

By: Unexpected

Unexpected — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:41:09 +0000

Thanks for this one! Comes in very handy and much more easy to use compared to those bootable disks…

By: james

james — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:23:47 +0000

Darn, it cut off a bit there here it is again:

cmd
diskpart
list volume
select volume ‘volume number’
extend
or
extent size=’size in MB’ disk=’disk number’
exit

By: james

james — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:22:07 +0000

For Diskpart I think its basically an extent? but this is how you would do that:

cmd
diskpart
list volume
select volume
extend -OR- extent size= disk=
exit

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VMWare users check this out | Savage Nomads — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:54:41 +0000

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By: Dan Nichols

Dan Nichols — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:46:18 +0000

Diskpart extends basic disk partitions cleanly. Extending simple volumes on dynamic disks results in multiple volumes/extents visible in the disk mgmt console. But then why use dynamic disks?

By: trails

trails — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:21:21 +0000

diskpart does not create volume sets or spanned volumes…it grows the partition. However I will test extpart to see if it can truly expand a system drive while it is live…this would be a neat trick and well worth using. Right now we mount our system drives to a spare 2003 vm and run diskpart on them to expand them when we absolutely need to grow a system volume.

By: Marc Elvery

Marc Elvery — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:22:21 +0000

Grin, used extpart today to increase the system partition of two windows 2003 machines I created from a template Have used it manys times already. Only thing missing could be an option to just max out on the capacity, that would make it even easier

By: Mike Laverick

Mike Laverick — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:33:42 +0000

Best thing that extpart has over diskpart… erm. that you can make the system drive bigger… plus this actually grows the partition rather than creating those ugly volume set/spanned volumes…

By: Eric Sloof

Eric Sloof — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:55:18 +0000

Thanks for reffering Mike, I created a little demo movie at : http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/1022-Pump-Up-the-Volume.html

By: Jase McCarty

Jase McCarty — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:41:46 +0000

This works on ESX 3.5 U2 as well.