Snapbacklive.
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Mar 2002
Q.
You can go to http://www.cdp.com and get the free Snapbacklive demo, and extract it. Use the RESIZE.EXE tool from a DOS prompt, and it resizes IDE drives, Dell PERC's (with the /ami or /perc switch, use /? to get help), and SCSI drives.
This is a HUGE timesaver! What it means is, you can easily replace a small drive with a bigger one. Mirror the data to the new drive. (Recall that NetWare mirroring is partition level, not volume level, so the entire partition is mirrored). Then down the server, use RESIZE (takes about 5 seconds) and bring the server back up, add the free space to an existing segment. This works great, even on volume SYS. They even offer free support on this tool.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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