The Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period- P16:The latest incarnation of Microsoft’s server product,Windows Server 2003, brings many new features and improvements that make the network administrator’s job chapter will briefly summarize what’s new in 2003 and introduce you to the four members of the Windows Server 2003 family: the Web Edition, the Standard Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the Datacenter Edition. | 116 Chapter 5 Managing Physical and Logical Disks By default the top section displays the volume list view and the bottom section displays the graphical can change the view by clicking the View menu bar choosing Top or Bottom and selecting the view that you want. In Figure the top section is using the default volume list view uses text in a table to show how your volumes and partitions are configured. The bottom section is using the graphical view. As the name implies it provides a graphical representation of how your disks are configured. The third view not shown by default is the disk list view. It uses text to show you how your disks are configured. It looks similar to the volume list view except it displays information on a per-disk basis instead of volume and partition information. Most administrators find the default combination volume list and graphical view to be most efficient. Notice that there is a legend on the bottom of the MMC as shown in Figure color codes enable you to look at each disk and easily determine what type of volume s or partition s it can use the View menu bar to change the colors assigned to each disk region. Figure Using Disk Management from within Computer Management Figure Using the Legend in the Disk Management MMC Managing Physical and Logical Disks Chapter 5 117 Using the Command-Line Utilities Microsoft has increased the number of functions that administrators can perform from the command prompt in Windows Server gives you more flexibility in accomplishing administrative tasks. Windows Server 2003 includes the following command-line tools for performing disk-related tasks for managing disks for managing the file system for managing remote storage In the following sections we will discuss each of these utilities in detail. Using enables you to manage disks partitions or volumes from the command can .
