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How do you extend C: partition of Windows Server 2022?
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As others have said, we remove the recovery partition when it gets in the way.
We came across a very similar but more sticky issue the other day. One of our admins rightfully converted all our VMs from BIOS to UEFI. This, however, created an EFI partition sitting to the right of the OS partition for the majority of our servers. We're now in a position where we can't increase disk size on any of those servers without going through the process of rebooting the box with gparted and manually moving the partition to the left. We're a 24 hour operation with hundreds of servers. This is bad :/
You could also push the EFI partition at the very end of the disk whenever you resize the volume. A bit more annoying but can be done live at least. Or at the very least, moving a 500MB partition is a lot faster than moving GBs of C drive, so less time spent on GParted.