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mokkan
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10 years ago
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windows volume Shrink question

Hello,

We have 400GB space on our dive and only  110 is used and we need to shrink our volume to 200 GB.  I looked at the Windows document and looks like straight forward through VEA to shrink the volume. When we do it in unix/linux we need to resize the FS , before we reduce the volume, but in Windows they are doing without reducing the FS. How are they doing it in Windows without reducing the FS.

Thanks in advance

  • Shrink volume would take care of filesystem reduction as well .. From below link it reads like shrink volume can work with both Raw & NTFS volumes

    If its a raw volume, it would have only volume shrink ..

    Read couple of sections from here

    https://sort.veritas.com/public/documents/vie/7.0/windows/productguides/html/sfw_admin/VmShrinkVolumeDialog.htm

     

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