Shrink Partition on Production Server
- by Campo
SO our production server was only setup with one large partition.
I have setup a standby server and properly partitioned it.
Now the boss wants the production environment's partition shrunk.
It is an HP DL380 G5
We have 4 hot swap drives in a raid 5.
How best should I go about doing this. Seems like a bad idea to me.
Should I use windows or HP to do the partitioning?
What should I be aware of in a production environment? The idea is to put the site (Inetpub) on a separate partition instead of the C: drive.
How much downtime should I expect?
Is this a terrible idea?
Anything else I have missed?