Shrink Partition on Production Server

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SO our production server was only setup with one large partition.

I have setup a standby server and properly partitioned it. Now the boss wants the production environment's partition shrunk.

It is an HP DL380 G5

We have 4 hot swap drives in a raid 5.

How best should I go about doing this. Seems like a bad idea to me.

Should I use windows or HP to do the partitioning?

What should I be aware of in a production environment? The idea is to put the site (Inetpub) on a separate partition instead of the C: drive.

How much downtime should I expect?

Is this a terrible idea?

Anything else I have missed?

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