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Configuring disk and file systems

Configuring disk and file systems - Windows Server Tutorial

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Configuring disk and file systems

Now that we have talked about local disks and volumes on Server 2012, let's go ahead and look at how we can manage them. While it is possible to manage them from the file and storage services tile here, there's actually a very limited amount of managing you're able to do here. The only way to really do anything here is to right click on the volume you wish to manage, and you see a very limited number things you're able to do. A better place to manage your disk and volumes, is up here under tools, computer manager and then click on Disk Manager. This brings up your disk management tool. From here you can do a lot of things with your disk. One thing we can do is we can right click on the volume, in this case the C volume and now we can shrink the volume for example and make it smaller. In this case, we will shrink it down by roughly 5 gig. We put 5,000 in there and then click Shrink. Now, we are just shy of 5 gig of unallocated space on this hard disk. Now, we have unallocated space, we…

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