Re-size partition on windows server 2003?

[Avathar77]

one of the hard disks is running very very low on disk space.
C drive(system) is only 20GB and the other partition has 27GB left as free.
Is it possible/safe to resize partitions on a server?

 

[Will Gill]

I used to use partition magic to do this

 

[KIA]

gparted will do it. Make sure you clone the drive before you resize, just in case.

 

[Little_Crow]

I use GParted myself too, but only ever used it on single partitioned disks on VMWare.
One thing I can tell you though, when it says to press any key to interrupt the disk check - leave it the hell alone and let it do its check.
I also echo the advice to back it up first.

Some other things you could do:
1) Move the page file to the other partition - It'll need a reboot to do, but is relatively painless.

2) Run Treesize - it might show up some deprecated profiles, huge temp folders or other hidden surprises you can easily remove.

3) Delete the pesky NTUninstall folders littering up C:\Windows - You won't be able to uninstall the corresponding windows updates after this so be really sure you aren't going to want to rollback - Maybe leave the last 3 months of folders if you update regularly.
Do this at your own risk - it's never caused me any problems but YMMV.

 

[Avathar77]

so I just moved the Pagefile and then cleaned up some unnecessary folders, which gave me about 5 GB of space!
That is enough till the upgrade.
Thank you guys.
I might try the gparted method after cloning the drive, after the new server arrives