The story begins with me needing more drive space on my backup drive. I allocated the extra space from our SAN. Then I went into the server and told it to expand the drive with the extra space.
This is where it gets weird. I could see the new space everywhere except in explore and chkdsk. They were both telling me that no addition space had been added. I could not find a way to get the server to recognize the extra space, not even a reboot worked.
This is when I took to the Internet. I could not find anything that talked about this and Windows Server 2008. I did find something about this for Windows Server 2003. The article talked about a DISKPART function that is not readily documented. It is extend file system.
It worked like a champ. Within a second of running this command, the server could recognize the addition storage.
Here are the commands to run once you are in DISKPART:
DISKPART> select volume 1 DISKPART> extend filesystem DiskPart successfully extended the file system on the volume. DISKPART> exit Leaving DiskPart...
Here is a link to the article for Windows Server 2003:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832316
Sir Slur
