Server 2012 - Partition Issues

[Alex Sage]

Disk 1 had an old 2003 install on it from before my time here.

I delete the partition and extended out the drives to get all the space available, however much to my surprise, it looks there is now 2 partitions, with one drive letter, which makes me uncomfortable at best.

Thoughts?

[scottalanmiller]

Now that is weird. Is that running in production currently?

[scottalanmiller]

If you go into the mounted D drive, how big does it say that it is?

[Alex Sage]

@scottalanmiller said in Server 2012 - Partition Issues:

Now that is weird. Is that running in production currently?

Yes

[scottalanmiller]

@aaronstuder said in Server 2012 - Partition Issues:

@scottalanmiller said in Server 2012 - Partition Issues:

Now that is weird. Is that running in production currently?

Yes

Any downtime options? Like evenings or weekends?

[coliver]

Is that a 2008R2 server or 2012? Sorry didn't see the heading.

It's a Dynamic disk which is basically Windows software RAID 0. It shouldn't be showing like that though.

[Alex Sage]

@scottalanmiller said in Server 2012 - Partition Issues:

If you go into the mounted D drive, how big does it say that it is?

I added a picture above ^^^, 899GB

[Alex Sage]

@scottalanmiller said in Server 2012 - Partition Issues:

Any downtime options? Like evenings or weekends?

If need be, yes.

[Alex Sage]

@coliver said in Server 2012 - Partition Issues:

It's a Dynamic disk which is basically Windows software RAID 0. It shouldn't be showing like that though.

Huh?

[dafyre]

@aaronstuder said in Server 2012 - Partition Issues:

@scottalanmiller said in Server 2012 - Partition Issues:

Any downtime options? Like evenings or weekends?

If need be, yes.

Backup, backup, backup!

[scottalanmiller]

@coliver said in Server 2012 - Partition Issues:

Is that a 2008R2 server or 2012? Sorry didn't see the heading.

It's a Dynamic disk which is basically Windows software RAID 0. It shouldn't be showing like that though.

Dynamic Disks is LVM, not RAID.

[Alex Sage]

@dafyre I have a backup but everything is running fine.....

[scottalanmiller]

@aaronstuder said in Server 2012 - Partition Issues:

@scottalanmiller said in Server 2012 - Partition Issues:

Any downtime options? Like evenings or weekends?

If need be, yes.

I'm thinking that you take it down and trying changing the drive letter of the hopefully unused partition to E or F and see what happens.

[coliver]

@scottalanmiller said in Server 2012 - Partition Issues:

@coliver said in Server 2012 - Partition Issues:

Is that a 2008R2 server or 2012? Sorry didn't see the heading.

It's a Dynamic disk which is basically Windows software RAID 0. It shouldn't be showing like that though.

Dynamic Disks is LVM, not RAID.

Sorry, you're right LVM.

[Alex Sage]

It just looks funny, maybe everything is fine, but it looks funny, and that's bugging me.

The full space is available, and the shares are all working perfectly, but I am wondering what the heck it is doing, and what will happen in the future, say if I need to expand the drive again, etc.

[scottalanmiller]

@aaronstuder said in Server 2012 - Partition Issues:

It just looks funny, maybe everything is fine, but it looks funny, and that's bugging me.

The full space is available, and the shares are all working perfectly, but I am wondering what the heck it is doing, and what will happen in the future, say if I need to expand the drive again, etc.

Maybe you did a span by accident?

[Alex Sage]

A simple volume is a dynamic volume that is made up of disk space from a single dynamic disk. A simple volume can consist of a single region on a disk or multiple regions of the same disk that are linked together. You can create simple volumes only on dynamic disks.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725610(v=ws.11).aspx

[scottalanmiller]

@aaronstuder said in Server 2012 - Partition Issues:

A simple volume is a dynamic volume that is made up of disk space from a single dynamic disk. A simple volume can consist of a single region on a disk or multiple regions of the same disk that are linked together. You can create simple volumes only on dynamic disks.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725610(v=ws.11).aspx

Yup, that's basically a generic "how LVMs work" article

[Alex Sage]

@scottalanmiller said in Server 2012 - Partition Issues:

Maybe you did a span by accident?

No, I right clicked on the 836.05 GB Partition and Clicked "Extend Volume" then told it to use the unallocated space.

[Reid Cooper]

I have not seen a span in a very long time, but that might be what it looks like.