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Volume cluster size oops, and possible fix?

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WangChung

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A while back when I set up my raid array, I had 4x1.5TB drives in RAID 5 and was originally planning to expand to 8x1.5TB drives to fill the controller. Well, this was several years ago and both technology and my payscale have increased nicely.
When one of the 1.5TB drives took a dump a few months back, I decided to just go H.A.M. and get 8x4TB drives and migrate the volume from the old drives to the new. Worked perfectly, but one thing I forgot is that I left the NTFS cluster size at default (4KB) on the new volume array. :eek:
When I went to expand the volume to the last two drives I bought recently, of course I got a nice little warning telling me I couldn't because it would "exceed the cluster size that the OS supports." So I have 8TB just sitting pretty and unused. I thought about using a partition tool to change the cluster size, but have read that there is too much of a chance of failure and data corruption.

The solution I thought of is just making a new volume out of that unused space formatted with the correct cluster size (going to use 8KB), copying over all the data from the original volume, deleting the original volume, then expanding out the new volume. Does this sound legit? Am I missing anything else I should do?
 
WangChung said:
The solution I thought of is just making a new volume out of that unused space formatted with the correct cluster size (going to use 8KB), copying over all the data from the original volume, deleting the original volume, then expanding out the new volume.
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That'll only work if the new partition is at the beginning of the disk. Generally you can't expand partitions to free space that's located before the partition.
 
Snowknight26 said:
That'll only work if the new partition is at the beginning of the disk. Generally you can't expand partitions to free space that's located before the partition.
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Even if he can't, he can delete the old partition and move the new one to the beginning and then expand it to fill the rest.

Backup first.
 
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