Server Hard Disk Partition

[sierrapacific]

I have an older HP server that the previous NetAdmin only left 2GB partition for the OS, Pervasive SQL, and Exchange 5.5. What options do I have to create more space on this partition? What can be uninstalled or moved?

 

[rharmeson]

Using a Live Linux Distro (Knoppix for instance) and dd you could copy bit for bit the current drive to a larger disk. Once completed, along with the boot partition, you could again use a Live Linux Distro to grow the partition as required. Not as fast as imaging, but certainly more cost effective.

See:

http://www.mckeay.net/secure/2004/10/using_dd_to_clone_a_hd.html