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Increase existing volume size
Name: JeffNC Date: July 2, 2003 at 17:52:29 Pacific OS: Netware 3.12 CPU/Ram: PIII-450
Comment:
I have a Novell 3.12 server w/ 5 volumes. I am upgrading to a new server w/ larger hard drives but have to stay on Novell 3.12. Rather than rebuilding the server, I plan to image the old hard drives to the new hard drives. If I do this, is there any way to increase the size of the volumes to use all of the new hard drive space?
Name: Jatinder Date: July 4, 2003 at 01:49:52 Pacific
Reply:
No you cannot create more then 2 gb volume in novell 3.x. Jatinder
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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer Date: July 4, 2003 at 20:31:43 Pacific
Reply:
Wow the information I see here is amazing. 2gig is the limit of a FAT partiton.
"Netware can support a Maximum volume size of 32 TB".
see here: http://novell.unc.edu/netware.html
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Response Number 3
Name: Nobody Date: July 9, 2003 at 05:09:31 Pacific
Reply:
Yes, the INSTALL utility allows you to add un-used space on the netware paritition to netware volumes to increase their size. Once space has been assigned to a volume, its size cannot be decreased with INSTALL. Note that space for a volume does not have to come from the same phyiscal disk, volumes can span multiple drives up to 16, IIRC.
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Response Number 4
Name: wanderer Date: July 11, 2003 at 07:18:32 Pacific
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NEVER span volumes in ANY server OS. No recovery except your last good backup if either disk has a problem.
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