ufo56 Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Hello I tried to resize my drive, at moment it is 10tb and i extended to 30tb. Clouddrive shows 30tb but in reality its 10tb. Disk management shows unallocated 20tb partition and when i try to exten 10tb partition i get this error The volume cannot be extended because the number of clusters will exceed the maximum number of clusters supported by the file system Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 UKA Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Hi, Someone else had this same issue in this thread where Drashna gave a good explanation of what's happening. http://community.covecube.com/index.php?/topic/2679-windows-explorer-shows-wrong-drive-size/ Christopher (Drashna) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 Hello I tried to resize my drive, at moment it is 10tb and i extended to 30tb. Clouddrive shows 30tb but in reality its 10tb. Disk management shows unallocated 20tb partition and when i try to exten 10tb partition i get this error The volume cannot be extended because the number of clusters will exceed the maximum number of clusters supported by the file system The limit for that drive is going to be 16TB. You can't extend it past that without reformatting or removing the partition. This is an NTFS limitation. That said, you *can* add additional partitions and ... well, pool the partitions together to fix this issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ufo56 Posted March 11, 2017 Author Share Posted March 11, 2017 If i make new drive and size that 100tb ? And move data to new drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted March 11, 2017 Share Posted March 11, 2017 If i make new drive and size that 100tb ? And move data to new drive. Absolutely no problem with doing that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I tried to resize my drive, at moment it is 10tb and i extended to 30tb. Clouddrive shows 30tb but in reality its 10tb.
Disk management shows unallocated 20tb partition and when i try to exten 10tb partition i get this error
The volume cannot be extended because the number of clusters will exceed the maximum number of clusters supported by the file system
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