kdburger (4/20/2012)
I'm just a novice, and probably shouldn't even post to this site. But, I wanted to ask what is likely a rediculous question. How did you 'extend the drive to 900GB'? Was this a partition that you that you enlarged? What if you hadn't had additional space to give it? I work supporting a software that is in the SQL format, so I know just enough to really get in trouble. I'm so glad you wrote this article poo-pooing the idea of shrinking because that would have been my first solution attempt.
I am sure you know the answer by now but just in case. The server is a VM so the Storage guys had to make sure the disks we assigned to the VM then in the settings of the VM the disk was resized then from Disk management on Windows you can see the new size. To extend it on 2008 you can just right-click and extend but on Windows 2003, you have to use Diskpart.exe. select the volume and the just type "extend volume"
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