Extend Spanned Volume

Question

Hi All

i have spanned volumes on one of my server. i.e each size of 1TB. so two drives i.e 2 TB. I am running out of space on these drives and i want to extend the volume.
i want to create another drive of 500 GB and add this to spanned volume will i be able to add the new drive to spanned volume i.e 3 drives and should be 2.5TB without any data loss.

Answer 1

Hello RisingFlight-7863,

Thank you for your question.

To extend the extended volume using a command line
Open a command prompt as an administrator and type diskpart.

1) At the DISKPART prompt, type list volume. Write down the number of the simple volume you want to extend to another disk.

2) At the DISKPART prompt, type select volume <volumenumber>. This selects the simple volume number you want to extend to another disk.

3) At the DISKPART prompt, type list disk. Write down the disk number to which you want to extend the simple volume.

4) At the DISKPART prompt, type extend [size=<size>] [disk=<disknumber>]. This extends the selected volume to disknumber and makes the extension size = size megabytes (MB).

More information about distribution, see the following article:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/cc753058(v=ws.11)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

Note: It is best to back up your important files, just for security reasons.

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