{"id":612,"date":"2016-08-19T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/partition-not-resized-when-a-scale-option-is-used\/"},"modified":"2021-09-03T15:17:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T22:17:37","slug":"partition-not-resized-when-a-scale-option-is-used","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/partition-not-resized-when-a-scale-option-is-used\/","title":{"rendered":"Partition not Resized when a &#8220;Scale&#8221; Option is Used"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><font color=\"#ff5500\">Problem:<\/font><\/strong> <\/p>\r\n  <p>A partition does not scale when the <strong>Scale to Fit<\/strong> (<strong>\/x<\/strong>) or <strong>Scale to Target<\/strong> (<strong>\/stt<\/strong>) option is used.<\/p>\r\n  <p><strong><font color=\"#ff5500\">Cause:<\/font><\/strong> <\/p>\r\n  <p>This can be caused by the partition being much smaller than the original physical drive. Automatic scaling restrictions are enabled by default and prevent the partition from being resized.<\/p>\r\n  <p><strong><font color=\"#ff5500\">Solution:<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\r\n  <p>Disable the <strong>Automatic Scaling Restrictions<\/strong> option in Settings (if using the command line, use the <strong>\/asr:0 <\/strong>parameter).<\/p>\r\n  <p>When enabled, the <strong>Automatic Scaling Restrictions<\/strong> option prevents small partitions from being automatically scaled when  restoring or copying a full drive. Partitions with a size of 15GiB or 1\/8 the drive size  (whichever is less) or smaller will not be scaled when restoring a full drive  image or copying a full drive. This provides an automatic method to avoid  scaling system reserved, recovery, and utility partitions to larger sizes when  upgrading to a larger drive.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: A partition does not scale when the Scale to Fit (\/x) or Scale to Target (\/stt) option is used. Cause: This can be caused by the partition being much smaller than the original physical drive. Automatic scaling restrictions are enabled by default and prevent the partition from being resized. Solution: Disable the Automatic Scaling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1805],"lsvr_kba_tag":[],"class_list":["post-612","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-shared-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}