Greetings, I'm Professor Kay. And in this short video presentation, we're going to see how we go about shrinking or extending a volume inside of server 2019. Normally, we could do this inside the Server Manager just by going to File and storage services. going click on this real quick. And underneath here, if we select the volumes, you'll see it once it refreshes, you can we can see the volume that we currently have at our disposal. So if I go ahead and I highlight my C volume, and I go over here to all tasks, I should be able to get the option to shrink or if it's possible, extended volume, but this feature is no longer available up inside the Server Manager.

So we're going to go to tools, and we're going to select Computer Management. Now this is the old way that we used to always do this. with previous versions of server. We use Computer Management, and then we use the Disk Management utility inside of Computer Management. To manage our disk, I'm now up inside of my computer management. And over on the left menu, I'm going to select Disk Management.

And give this a minute to refresh, it's going to pull up the current status of my existing volumes. So I currently have a one disk with a 50 gigabyte partition. And we have 549 megabytes reserved for the NTFS or the system. So I have this over here to play with. Now this additional, or this remaining 49 point 46 gigabytes is already formatted NTFS. Now if I would like to shrink this current volume, I can right click on it and I can just select from the context menu shrink volume.

Once the machine has determined how much space I can shrink from the existing volume, it comes up with this calculation. Now I don't need the whole entire 41 gigabytes, so I'm going to go ahead and select 10,000 megabytes, or approximately 10 gigabytes, I'll go ahead and say shrink. And now over here to my right, you'll see that I have this existing volume that we just created a 10 gigabytes. Now got that by shrinking the existing volume that was 49. Now if I would like to extend this volume, that is to say, the 39 gigabytes that I have to include this extension that I have over here, approximately 10 gigabytes, I'll just right click again. And this time, I'm going to select extend volume.

That brings up the extend volume wizard, just click Next. That tells you exactly how much space you can extend this volume and what is actually available. So I'm going to go ahead and select the entire 10 gigabytes that I currently have available. I'm gonna click next and I'll click Finish. You see that we're back to our 49.4 60 gigabytes of the volume that is now complete. So when it comes to extending the volume, whatever is available up inside of your disk management can be used, with the exception of that volume already being utilized for the storage of data.

Now that can create a problem. So if that happens, go ahead and remove any data from that volume that you're wanting to use as the extension, copy that information down to a USB drive, copy it someplace else, you may even have to reformat that small volume that you're wanting to use for the extension. And then you should be able to add it. So if you don't see that option to extend, that just means that there's probably some data that's in the way. And so that's going to conclude this short video presentation on how we go about either shrinking or extending an existing volume up inside of our Microsoft server 2019 So if you have any questions or concerns about any of the information that was covered in this short video presentation, please don't hesitate to reach out contact your instructor and I'll see you in my next video.