Windows Home Server on Hyper-V – Resizing the Partition

Yes I know that Windows Home Server has Drive Extender. Yes I know that Drive Extender makes adding storage space easy and is a brilliant piece of technology. However I wanted my WHS install to have a resilient System disk and besides, I didn’t have a spare box for WHS. So I put it on my server running Hyper-V, but clearly didn’t give it enough disk space.

So here’s the process for adding more disk space to a virtualised WHS install:

• Shut down the WHS virtual machine
• Use the Edit Disk action to increase the capacity of the VHD file used by the WHS virtual machine
• Start up the WHS virtual machine
• Log in to the desktop on the WHS virtual machine
• Run Command Prompt
• Run diskpart
• select disk 0
• list partition
• select partition 2 (assumes that you’re using one VHD file and you want to extend the single data partition to fill the unused disk space)
• extend
• exit

Yes I know you’re not supposed to do this. Yes I know you’re supposed to add additional disks (by adding another VHD file). But this works fine for me. YMMV, so take a backup first!

Compiling Firebird 1.5.x on FreeBSD 4.x Requires GCC 3.2

Note to self: when compiling 5+ year old code on a 5+ year old operating system, it helps to use a version of GCC that compiles the resultant code cleanly and more importantly in a portable manner.

GCC 3.3 has a broken libstdc++ that prevents static linking – you end up with unresolved symbols.

Both GCC 3.3 and GCC 3.4 will end up requiring dynamic linking of libstdc++ and libgcc_s – not helpful if you’re trying to be portable and don’t want to pollute a system with the gcc33 or gcc34 package.

Hopefully I’ve seen the last of this problem, but if I don’t write it down now it will only turn around and bite me in several years time