Dell PowerVault NX300 User Manual - Page 45

Shrinking a Volume You can decrease the space used by primary partitions and logical drives by shrinking them into adjacent, contiguous space on the same disk. For example, if you discover that you need an additional partition but do not have additional disks, you can shrink the existing partition from the end of the volume to create new un-allocated space that can then be used for a new partition. For shrinking a volume: 1 In Disk Manager, right-click the Basic Volume you want to shrink. 2 Click Shrink Volume.... 3 Follow the instructions on your screen. NOTE: You can only shrink basic volumes that have no file system or use the NTFS file system. Additional Considerations • When you shrink a partition, unmovable files (for example, the page file or the shadow copy storage area) are not automatically relocated and you cannot decrease the allocated space beyond the point where the unmovable files are located. • If the number of bad clusters detected by dynamic bad-cluster remapping is too high, you cannot shrink the partition. If this occurs, you should consider moving the data and replacing the disk. • Do not use a block-level copy to transfer the data. The block-level copy also copies the bad sector table and the new disk treats the same sectors as bad even though they are normal. • You can shrink primary partitions and logical drives on raw partitions (those without a file system) or partitions using the NTFS file system. Using Your NAS System 45