Resize a Bad expansion

[rtimberman]

We have a customer that has 2 AX4's with 9 Terra in each Chasis. The customer originally setup the entire storage system with one big partition of 9 Terra's. They then added another 9 and then procceded to expand the volume. The actual disk expanded to 18TB but the file system was unable to Expand because the sector size is too small. There is 8.8 terra on the 9 Terra system now and no way to really work with this. No data can be written to the expansion but I am leary to just drop the extra volume off line and corrupt the data they have. My efforts to try and re-size the volume has been futile at best. Since the company cannot be without this data more than a day I'm kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place as it will take much longer than that to copy the data / redo the san / recopy the data back.
System is Windows Server 2003 x64 SP2.
Diskpart has no shrink command in there for me to use
and none of the other utilities I normally use for this will even touch the volume.
Is there any way at all to get this Volume shrunk or is this Client sunk for doing things their way?

Thanks!!!
Russ

 

[mrdenny]

They are stuck with the mistakes that they made.

You'll need to remove the data from the volume, destroy the LUN, then create a new correctly sized LUN and put the data back.

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[rtimberman]

Thanks for the Response.. That's what I figured but thought maybe there might be a trick..
Thanks again..

Russ

 

[mrdenny]

Yeah, sadly some people just insist on getting themselves in really bad trouble that you can't get them out of.

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