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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
1 Right-click the partition or volume to be checked.
2 From the context menu, select Properties.
The Properties window displays.
3 Review the properties for your volume.
Formatting a Partition or Volume
1 Right-click the volume or partition that you want to format, and then click Format.
A warning message appears, stating that all data on the partition will be lost and prompts you to format
the disk,
2 Click Yes to reformat the disk.
3 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.
4 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.
5 Enter an allocation size or use the default, which is automatically selected.
NOTE:
If you use NTFS file system 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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