If I have software RAID 1, do I have to break the mirror before I use VolumeManager?
• Break the mirror. • Reboot the computer. • Resize the partitions. • Reboot the computer again. • Re-establish the mirror. If you are using mirroring in Windows 2000, you have a Dynamic Volume. (To verify this, check in Disk Management to see whether the volume is listed as Dynamic) VolumeManager currently only supports Basic Disks. For Dynamic Disk support, including the ability to convert from Dynamic to Basic disks, see Symantec LiveState Recovery Standard Server. How do you increase the size of a boot or system partition on a disk that contains multiple partitions? Assuming all of the volumes exist on one drive or one container on the RAID controller, we will use the following example to illustrate this procedure: Suppose you have three partitions– C, D, and E. Partition E contains the free space you want to add to the C partition. Using VolumeManager, do the following. • Move the left boundary of partition E to the right to create free space between partitions D and E. • Move pa
