Hi Guys
As the title suggests i'm looking for help reducing the size of a LUN that has already been expanded.
Recently I was asked to extend a drive on a server. The drive in question was on top of a 600GB LUN connecting over Fibre Channel. So I extended the LUN to 850GB and used DISKPART to extend the drive so it now appears as 850GB within Server 2008.
However, The request was wrong and instead they have asked me to expand a different LUN by 250GB which I've now done. But as you can imagine I would like to reclaim the 250GB that I previously added.
What is the best way to go about this?
I've tested my backups so i'm confident that I can recover the data if something goes wrong but obviously i'd like to avoid that :)
Can I simply shrink the size of the partition in Disk Management and then reduce the size of the LUN on my SAN? or do I need to create a new LUN and move the data onto the new drive?
I can confirm that no new data has been written to this drive since the expansion.
Many thanks
RC