NetWare 4.11 and Disk Partitioning Capabilities
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Mar 2002
Q.
I have a server running NetWare v4.11 with Support Pack 8. The server currently has two 9GB drives duplexed together. We decided to put in a third 70GB drive. This third drive is not going to be duplexed, volumes from the duplexed drives will not be spanning it, etc.
When creating the NetWare partition, we did not include the entire 70GB of space, rather we created a 50GB NetWare partition (for one volume) and left the other 20GB as "free space." This free space is now needed for a second volume.
What will happen if I tell NetWare to convert this "free space" to a NetWare partition. Will changing the 20GB free space section of a drive to a NetWare partition require me to backup/delete/reinstall the original 50GB NetWare partition? Or will NetWare just make the free space section a NetWare partition with no problem?
Woeing in Wisconsin
A.
Dear Woeing: Since you are using NetWare 4.11, you will run up against a limitation of NetWare 4.x, that being you can only have one NetWare partition per physical hard drive. There is no way with NetWare 4.x to add the extra 20GB to the existing 50GB partition without redoing the whole partition, which will cause you to lose your data in the 50GB. But there are some third-party utilities that can do this for you:
Server Magic 4.0, from PowerQuest (http://www.powerquest.com) will allow you to resize NetWare partitions, thereby allowing you to use the extra disc space without hurting the data in the 50GB partition.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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