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Unallocated Space

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over 6 years ago

How does Quest deal with unallocated space on a volume? Will it just ignore it?

We have one server with a very large primary partition and nothing on it but the OS. I would like to shrink that and leave the unused space as unallocated. One big reason for doing this is if/when I need to recover it I will not need to recover to an even larger partition than it is now.

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  • 0 over 6 years ago
    Yes the same or larger which is why I wanted to shrink it.

    I have run into this in the past. A recovered machine ended up with a 1TB primary partition because the lost machine had a 300GB one and it would not restore to another 300GB one. (The only servers I had on hand were 300GB and 1TB)

    Are you saying shrinking the primary partition preemptively would not prevent this as Quest would "know" it was originally a 1TB?
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  • 0 over 6 years ago
    Yes the same or larger which is why I wanted to shrink it.

    I have run into this in the past. A recovered machine ended up with a 1TB primary partition because the lost machine had a 300GB one and it would not restore to another 300GB one. (The only servers I had on hand were 300GB and 1TB)

    Are you saying shrinking the primary partition preemptively would not prevent this as Quest would "know" it was originally a 1TB?
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