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Shrinking and extending disks on Server while running?

So I have a server with Hyper-V and a Drive C: (OS) and D. Drive D stores all of the VHDs that I run. Drive C shows up as Disk 0, and D as Disk 1 under Disk Management respectively. Now Drive D gets low on space because the VHDs got bigger, and I…
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esxi 5.1 (free) reduce vmdk size (not zero the data, reduce size by a certain amount)

I have set 100GB as the limit of my VMDK. I can reduce the size by using the vmkfstools -k my.vmdk What I would really like to do is take 20GB off the thick size of the disk. Any advice? I would prefer something in the CLI vs using the converter…
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Is it safe to shrink tempdb.mdf in MS SQL Server?

Hej, my TEMPDB.mdf grew up to 42GB on MS SQL Server 2005 installed on Windows Server 2003. Last date change is 31/01/2013 at night. So, I wonder whether this is ok to shrink it?
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What's the difference between shrinking files or database in SQL Server?

I need more space in my development environment and need to shrink my database (or files) in SQL Server. Should I chose "shrink files" or "shrink database" to free most disk space?
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how to consolidate multiple log files into one ldf file in sql2000

I'm in the process of copying databases from SQL 2000 to a 2008 instance on another server using DETACH, copy windows file to 2008 server, then finally ATTACH. I've come to a database where the LOG file is in 2 windows files: name …
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How to shrink qcow2 disk safely?

This is what my guest looked like i shrinked the C partion in the guest in the windows 10 guest , made sure that the unallocated space is on the right most side. then, i did this sudo qemu-img resize --shrink ../kvm_storage/win10.qcow2 62G and it…
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BTRFS resize - free space not available to use

I'm trying to shrink BTRFS partition and create new EXT4 partition with that free space. I did btrfs filesystem resize -5g / Now I have this (notice Device slack equals what I shrinked): orangepiplus2e:~:# btrfs device usage / /dev/mmcblk2p2, ID: 1 …
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Windows Server - how to shrink partition on GPT disk from the front?

I'm looking for a way to shrink a partition on a GPT disk from the front on production servers. With diskpart it's only possible to shrink the space from the end. Ideally while running
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Centos 7 - Shrink size of LVM Partition

I have a Centos 7 VM which was built from an OVA template. I have it running under Virtualbox. Issue I have is the VM has a dynamic disk of 200G - but only 4 Gb used. I want to shrink the partition to 40Gb. EDIT. The file system is xfs Its an LVM…
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Sql Server 2017 - Cannot shrink transaction log file, blocked by LOG_BACKUP status

Last week my sql server 2017 instance (running on windows server 2016) ran out of space, filling the disk completely up with a 190GB transaction log file. Luckily this was on a cloud instance, so I quickly unmounted the disk, grew it an additional…
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Shrink Windows 10 ISO to a minimum

I want to run Windows 10 on a virtual machine for automated testing. I only need Edge or IE installed and want the .iso file size to be as small as possible. Is there a way to shrink the image by disabling the built-it Windows features, possibly…
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