LAB 6 WORKSHEET

WORKING WITH DISKS

This lab contains the following exercises and activities

Exercise 6!" Exercise 6!# Exercise 6!$ Exercise 6!% Exercise 6!& Exercise 6!6 Lab Review Lab 'hallenge Wor(station Reset Creating a Simple Volume Extending a Volume Creating Additional Volumes Mounting a Volume Removing Volumes Creating a Spanned Volume Questions Creating a Striped Volume Returning to Baseline

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Exercise 6!"
Overview

'reating a Si)*le +ol,)e

Thanks to your instruction, Karen now sees the advantage of storing the departments data files on a volume separate from the operating system and application files. In this exercise, you create a new simple volume on the server where the accountants can store their data. ! minutes

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Table 6-" .is( /nfor)ation

Disk 0 Disk type (basic or dynamic) Total disk size Number and type of partitions Amount of unallocated space

Disk 1

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". #ress Ctrl$#rt %cr to take a screen shot of the &isk 'anagement snap(in, showing the volume you created, and then press Ctrl$) to paste the resulting image into the la*!+,worksheet file in the page provided.

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Exercise 6!#
Overview

Extending a +ol,)e
- few days later, you receive another call from Karen. %he has *een diligently moving the departments data files to the volume you created for her, *ut she has now run out of disk space. The volume was not *ig enough. To address the pro*lem, you decide to extend the Karen volume *y using some of the unallocated space left on the disk. /or this task, you intend to use the &iskpart.exe command line utility. 0 minutes

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What is the result?

0,estion "

Table 6-# 1nallocated S*ace Re)aining

Disk 0 Unallocated space left (gigabytes) Unallocated space left (megabytes) Disk 1

0,estion #

What is the number of the 1-GB partition you created earlier in this exercise?

What is the result?

0,estion $

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1. #ress Ctrl$#rt %cr to take a screen shot of the &isk 'anagement snap(in, showing the extended volume, and then press Ctrl$) to paste the resulting image into the la*!+,worksheet file in the page provided.

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What is the result?

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Exercise 6!$
Overview

'reating Additional +ol,)es

Karen is thrilled at the idea of storing her departments data files in separate volumes, and now she wants you to create more partitions on her server. 2owever, you used all of the availa*le space to create her Karen volume. Therefore, you have to shrink the Karen volume to create room for the additional volumes she wants. ! minutes
How much available shrink space is contained in the volume?

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0,estion &
How is the last volume you created different from the previous ones? Explain why

0,estion 6

0,estion 2

What do you suppose would happen if you created another simple volume out of the free space left on the disk?

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#ress Ctrl$#rt %cr to take a screen shot of the &isk 'anagement snap(in, showing the volumes you created, and then press Ctrl$) to paste the resulting image into the la*!+,worksheet file in the page provided.

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Exercise 6!%
Overview

4o,nting a +ol,)e
Karen calls yet again to tell you that she needs still more space on her Karen volume, *ut is una*le to expand it. 4ou decide to provide her with additional space *y creating a volume and mounting it in a folder on the Karen volume. 0 minutes

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Were you successful?

0,estion 3
What is the result?

0,estion 5

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". #ress Ctrl$#rt %cr to take a screen shot of the &isk 'anagement snap(in, showing the volumes you created, and then press Ctrl$) to paste the resulting image into the la*!+,worksheet file in the page provided.

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Table 6-$ Karen" 7S 8 9ro*erties

Megabytes Used space !ree space "apacity igabytes

0,estion "6

!oes the capacity of the "# drive reflect the addition of the mounted $aren% volume?

0,estion ""

&ccordin' to the status bar( how much free space is on the $aren% volume?

0,estion "#

!oes the free space on $aren% reflect the space available on the $aren1 volume as well?

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Exercise 6!&
Overview

Re)oving +ol,)es
The -ccounting department server currently has five volumes on its disk5 three primary partitions and one extended partition with two logical drives. Karen and her staff have found it difficult to manage their files with so many volumes, so she wants to consolidate the disk into 6ust two volumes5 her original volume, plus one large data volume, which will *e a spanned volume that uses all of the availa*le space on &isk ! plus all of the space on the second hard disk in the computer. ! minutes

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0,estion "$

Why doesn)t the disk space used by the $aren* and $aren% volumes appear in the !isk +ana'ement snap-in as unallocated?

0,estion "%

What is the maximum amount of space that you can use to extend the $aren1 volume?

0,estion "&

Why can)t you extend the $aren1 volume by usin' all of the remainin' space on the disk?

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Exercise 6!6
Overview

'reating a S*anned +ol,)e

7ow that you have deleted the extra volumes on the -ccounting server, you can extend the Karen volume to use all of the disk space on *oth of the computers hard drives. ! minutes

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0,estion "6

What is the maximum amount of space that you can use to extend the $aren1 volume?

0,estion "2

Why can)t you extend the $aren1 volume to the second hard disk ,!isk 1-?

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#ress Ctrl$#rt %cr to take a screen shot of the Select Disks page, and then press Ctrl$) to paste the resulting image into the la*!+,worksheet file in the page provided.

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0,estion "3

How is the "elect !isks pa'e different now that you have converted the basic disks to dynamic disks?

0,estion "5

What is the total volume si.e displayed on the "elect !isks pa'e?

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1. #ress Ctrl$#rt %cr to take a screen shot of the &isk 'anagement snap(in, showing the spanned volume you created, and then press Ctrl$) to paste the resulting image into the la*!+,worksheet file in the page provided.

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LAB RE+/EW 01EST/O:S

Completion time ! minutes

. In 8xercise +.0, why doesnt the extended partition you created appear in the &isk 'anagement snap(ins volume list in the top view pane9

:. In 8xercise +.1, why is it that you were una*le to extend the Karen volume and were forced to mount a volume to a folder instead, *ut you were a*le to extend Karen"9

". In 8xercise +.+ after you converted &isk ! from a *asic disk to a dynamic disk, how many partitions were there on the disk9 2ow do you know9

1. If one of the hard disk drives should fail after creating the spanned volume on the -ccounting server *y using space from *oth hard disks, what would happen to the data stored on the volume9

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LAB 'HALLE:;E 'REAT/:; A STR/9E. +OL14E

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Karen wants to increase the disk performance on her server and has decided that, instead of a single spanned volume, she wants to create a single striped volume as large as her server can support. To complete this challenge, delete the Karen spanned volume, and re(create it as a striped volume using the same file system and formatting parameters. To complete these tasks, you can use only the &iskpart.exe utility. ;ist the &iskpart commands you used. <hen you are finished, open the &isk 'anagement snap(in, and press Ctrl$#rt %cr to take a screen shot, showing the striped volume you created. Then, press Ctrl$) to paste the resulting image into the la*!+,worksheet file in the page provided.

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WORKSTAT/O: RESET RET1R:/:; TO BASEL/:E

Completion time ! minutes

To return the computer to its *aseline state, complete the following procedure. . :. Open the &isk 'anagement snap(in. &elete all of the volumes on *oth disks except for the original C5 volume that contains the operating system.