Good morning all -- have a question about extending a volume on Server 2008 R2.
The volume is an iSCSI target using the Microsoft iSCSI initiator -- the iSCSI device is a Dell MD3000i.
The volume was originally 500GB. On the MD3000i, I expanded the space from 500GB to 1TB -- this went fine without any issues. Once the space was expanded on the MD3000, I hopped on the server and saw the available unallocated space on that drive.. So, I followed the normal MS guide to extend a partition using the unallocated space -- I used the command prompt, diskpart, method instead of Disk Management GUI.
After extending the disk (which went fine without any issues), I can now see Disk Management reports the drive as 1100GB instead of the original 500GB. However, when I go to My Computer, it still only shows the disk as being 500GB. When I right clicked on the volume to check the properties, it still showed 500GB but it didn't look right -- I recall some a couple of the areas just showed 0 bytes even though the disk was working and was usable.
After rebooting the computer, the problem still persists -- I did run a 'chkdsk /R G:' so it could find/repair any errors -- this fixed the 0 byte errors I saw on the drive properties.
It should also be noted that from the MD3000, it is showing the volume as a 1100GB target instead of the original 500GB (so that looks fine).
Any reason why this additional space is not available for use?