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2-14 Compaq TaskSmart N2400 Administration Guide
Online Volume Growth
SWVR provides the ability to increase storage capacity without disrupting
operations on Windows 2000 systems. Normally, when you grow a RAID set,
the operating system does not recognize the size change until you restart the
system. The SWVR online volume growth feature directs the operating system
to update the size of a physical drive or virtual disk without requiring a system
restart. Online volume growth also can instruct the operating system to grow
the on-disk partition information for a volume. This feature allows a volume to
grow into unused space made available by either increasing the size of a drive
or by deleting one or more adjacent partitions. With online volume growth,
you can easily increase storage capacity as required by your users and
applications, and do it with zero downtime.
The online volume growth feature operates only on basic and virtual disks
formatted with the New Technology File System (NTFS). It does not work
with dynamic drives. Chapter 6 provides additional information about SWVR.
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