Sometimes, I find it useful to shrink volumes. This happens about once every 2 or 3 years. Since I do it so infrequently, I have to look it up every time.<\/p>\n
In my experience, while you can do it from the GUI, it isn\u2019t always successful. Also, I have not ever seen it work to try and shrink it by the complete amount that is available to shrink. My experiences are related to very large (larger than 1 TB) volumes.<\/p>\n
To shrink via the command line, at an elevated prompt, do the following:<\/p>\n
Diskpart<\/strong> \u2013 this is the disk management CLI<\/p>\n List volumes<\/strong> \u2013 this is the diskpart cmd that gives you a list of volumes (not to be confused with the list of disks<\/p>\n select volume <#><\/strong> \u2013 this is how you select the volume that you want to work on, i.e. \u201cselect volume 2<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n shrink querymax<\/strong> \u2013 this tells you how much space can be trimmed off the volume. There are several factors that affect this, but the primary things are how big the volume is to begin with, and where on that volume the un-movable system files are located.<\/p>\n shrink desired=<size in MB><\/strong> \u2013 this tells the volume to shrink by the amount of space given in MB. I.e. \u201cshrink desired=102400<\/em>\u201d will shrink the volume by 100GB.<\/p>\n shrink minimum=<size in MB><\/strong> \u2013 this tells the volume to shrink by the amount specified, but only if it can shrink by that amount<\/p>\n You can use the minimum and desired together if you want. You can also add a \u201cNOWAIT<\/strong>\u201d so that the prompt returns and you don\u2019t have to wait to see the results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes, I find it useful to shrink volumes. This happens about once every 2 or 3 years. Since I do it so infrequently, I have to look it up every time. In my experience, while you can do it from the GUI, it isn\u2019t always successful. Also, I have not ever seen it work to… Continue reading Shrinking volumes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[75,76,163],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-info","category-microsoft","tag-disk-manamgent","tag-diskpart","tag-shrink","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcW544-60","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nukeitmike.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}