Dell PowerVault 735N (Rackmount NAS Appliance) - Manual (Page 39)

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Extending a Dynamic Simple or Spanned Volume
You can extend a volume only if the following are true:
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The volume is formatted as NTFS.
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The volume was originally created as a dynamic disk.
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There is unallocated space on a dynamic disk onto which volume can be
extended.
You cannot extend a volume if any of the following are true:
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The volume is formatted as FAT or FAT32.
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The volume is a striped, mirrored, or a RAID-5 volume.
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There is no unallocated space available on a dynamic disk.
You can extend simple and spanned volumes on dynamic disks onto a maximum of 32
dynamic disks. After a volume is extended, it cannot be mirrored or striped. No por-
tion of a spanned volume can be deleted without deleting the entire spanned volume.
1. Right-click the simple or spanned volume you want to extend and then click
Extend Volume.
The selected volume appears in the dialog box along with its current size.
2. Enter the amount to extend the volume and click OK.
Ignore any system messages that you might see while the volume extends. You
do not have to run any special utilities.
3. Click OK.
The volume now shows the size of the extended volume.