Moving spanned volume

[meester]

I have a spanned volume on my Windows Home Server.

Originally it was a 1 TB, 1TB, and 4TB drive. It runs under Vmware, so these are virtual disks.

I moved the first 1TB to a 4TB drive and then resized the virtual disk to 4TB.

Now I have a 3TB space on the end of that virtual drive. Windows won't let me create a partition there, and I can't figure out how to move everything along so that the drive is full.

Any suggestions?

 

[corkyg]

I would suggest downloading and doing it with GParted.

http://gparted.org/

I would also suggest you never fill a HDD. Leave some freeboard for drive upkeep and maintenance. You can avoid many problems keeping about 20% free.

 

[meester]

Hmm, I ran gparted, but it seem very wrong.

It says I have a 1.64 TiB partition, and 2 TiB of free space on /dev/sdb, which is obviously wrong, as it should be 1TB and 3TB free. It doesn't seem to know what a dynamic disk/spanned volume is.

I didn't let it make any changes.

 

[corkyg]

OK - Dynamic Disk mskes it s special case. This article might help. And, don't get too set on the 1TB and 3TB numbers. Those are marketing dimensions that ignore the actual 1024 factor.

http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/ABR11.5/index.html#12668.html

 

[meester]

So apparently the problem is that the disk is 4TB, and the maximum size for a simple volume is 2TB. So I can't create any simple volume there at all.

If I shrink the disk to 3TB I can.