Re-Partitioning Nexus Drive

[geminianspark]

Corporate came along and wants us to repartition our Nexus server to move our artwork share to that server also.  When the IT guy tried to "shrink" the E drive of nexus, it would only allow him to shrink it in half.  It currently has 880GB of space and he was told to shrink it to 200 GB.   Anyone have any suggestions on how to accomplish this task with minimal downtime?  Will we have to reconfigure the whole nexus drive in order to do this?   

[Stiv]

I'm not going to be able to help here.
My question is why would they want to do that? What are the benefits?

[mattbeals]

Yeah, what's the point? Re-allocating storage? You're probably looking at wiping the drive and starting over. What's the current configuration and where is the art supposed to be moved to?

[Joe]

I use this often and have resized partitions of various sizes.

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

[geminianspark]

-don't know "WHY"... just know that's what they said to do. 

-currently, nexus is on the E drive with 880GB of storage.  He was told to take it to 200GB and reallocate the rest to a new partition. 

-starting over is what i was worried about.

[Joe]

-don't know "WHY"... just know that's what they said to do. 

-currently, nexus is on the E drive with 880GB of storage.  He was told to take it to 200GB and reallocate the rest to a new partition. 

-starting over is what i was worried about.

The software I linked to above does non destructive partitioning.

[geminianspark]

sent IT the link...  thanks!!