Resizing system Partition for upgrade to SBS 2003

My sbs 2000 server is a raid-5 system c/w 2 logical drives

Logical Drive 1 (Basic) - C: 4gb (1gb free space) (system)
- F: 30gb (18gb free space) (exchange
databases)
Logical Drive 2 (dynamic) - E:100gb (70gb free space) (data)

My tech. support tells me that even with the low drive-c space, the upgrade
to SBS 2003 should run. Will I run into problems with low disk space after
the upgrade though??? Has anyone used successfully, Powerquest's Volume
Manager to resize system partitions online??? Any suggestions greatly
appreciated.

thanks.w

Paul
Wed Dec 24 14:25:00 CST 2003

Hi

I think 4 gig c drive is a tad low - and your idea of increasing it would be
a good idea before doing the upgrade.

Can I assume that the raid 5 is a hardware raid. If so then you should be
able to use Volume Manager to resize your c drive

I have done this successfully on a compaq prolient with a hardware raid 5
setup. We had SBS2000 with a 4 gig hard drive and we resized the c drive to
about 10 gig. We actually made a bootable CD from a windows98 startup disk
(of all things!!) and put the volume manager files on that CD and ran Volume
Manager from that.

Before doing this though, make sure you have a verified full backup - just
in case..........


"W. Leong" <wleong@quadrapacific.com> wrote in message
news:Y9mGb.47752$ss5.29741@clgrps13...
> My sbs 2000 server is a raid-5 system c/w 2 logical drives
>
> Logical Drive 1 (Basic) - C: 4gb (1gb free space) (system)
> - F: 30gb (18gb free space) (exchange
> databases)
> Logical Drive 2 (dynamic) - E:100gb (70gb free space) (data)
>
> My tech. support tells me that even with the low drive-c space, the
upgrade
> to SBS 2003 should run. Will I run into problems with low disk space
after
> the upgrade though??? Has anyone used successfully, Powerquest's Volume
> Manager to resize system partitions online??? Any suggestions greatly
> appreciated.
>
> thanks.w
>
>

Mark
Thu Dec 25 19:06:11 CST 2003

I would go 12GB for the C: drive and Volume Manager works great, just ghost
it first just in case.

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Sincerely,
Mark Mancini, CCA, CCNA, Master CIW&CI, CNE 4&5, MCSE+I 4&2000
www.MCSE2000.com
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"W. Leong" <wleong@quadrapacific.com> wrote in message
news:Y9mGb.47752$ss5.29741@clgrps13...
> My sbs 2000 server is a raid-5 system c/w 2 logical drives
>
> Logical Drive 1 (Basic) - C: 4gb (1gb free space) (system)
> - F: 30gb (18gb free space) (exchange
> databases)
> Logical Drive 2 (dynamic) - E:100gb (70gb free space) (data)
>
> My tech. support tells me that even with the low drive-c space, the
upgrade
> to SBS 2003 should run. Will I run into problems with low disk space
after
> the upgrade though??? Has anyone used successfully, Powerquest's Volume
> Manager to resize system partitions online??? Any suggestions greatly
> appreciated.
>
> thanks.w
>
>