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26 RAID and Disk Management

Volume Overview

A volume is a logical entity that consists of portions of one or more physical disks. A volume can be

formatted with a file system and can be accessed by a drive letter.

Like disks, volumes can be configured as basic or dynamic. Basic volumes refer to all volumes that are not

on dynamic disks. Dynamic volumes are logical volumes created from dynamic disks.

It is recommended that you create all data volumes on dynamic disks. On a hardware RAID system, only

the operating system disk should remain basic.

Checking Partition or Volume Properties

Right-click the partition or volume to be checked.

From the context menu, select

Properties

The

Properties

window displays.

Review the properties for your volume.

Formatting a Partition or Volume

Right-click the volume or partition that you want to format, and then click

Format

NOTICE: A warning message appears, stating that all data on the partition will be lost and prompts you to format

the disk.

Click

Yes

to reformat the disk.

When prompted, select

NTFS

as the file system type.

NOTE: Your storage server supports only NTFS partitions. Formatting all partitions as NTFS allows for

advanced features only available under that file system.

Enter a label for the volume.

The label appears on the Array Manager console. If a name has been selected, this name appears in the

Name

field. You can change the name by typing a different name.

Enter an allocation size or use the default, which is automatically selected.

NOTE: If you use NTFS file compression on the source volume, you cannot use an allocation unit size larger

than 4 KB. Defragmenting a source volume with shadow copies causes the difference file, which contains all

changed data, to grow. If the difference file grows beyond the allocated space, you might lose previous

versions of some files. Having a large NTFS file cluster size decreases the growth of the difference file.

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