LAB6

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LAB 6 WORKSHEET WORKING WITH DISKS

This lab contains the following exercises and activities:

Exercise 6.1

Exercise 6.2

Exercise 6.3

Exercise 6.4

Exercise 6.5

Exercise 6.6

Lab Review

Lab Challenge

Workstation 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

2 MOAC Windows Server 2008 Administrator, Exam 70-646

Exercise 6.1 Creating a Simple Volume

Overview

Thanks to your instruction, Karen now sees the advantage of storing the

department’s 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.

Completion time 10 minutes

Table 6-1 Disk Information

Disk 1

Disk type (basic or dynamic) Basic

Total disk size 9.81 GB

Number and type of partitions 1 NTFS partition

Amount of unallocated space 1.71GB

Lab 6: Working with Disks 3

13. Press Ctrl+Prt Scr to take a screen shot of the Disk Management snap-in, showing the

volume you created, and then press Ctrl+V to paste the resulting image into the

lab06_worksheet file in the page provided.


Exercise 6.2 Extending a Volume

Overview

A few days later, you receive another call from Karen. She has been

diligently moving the department’s data files to the volume you created for

her, but she has now run out of disk space. The volume was not big enough!

To address the problem, you decide to extend the Karen1 volume by using

some of the unallocated space left on the disk. For this task, you intend to

use the Diskpart.exe command line utility.


Question

1

What is the result?

The Folder can’t be located.

Table 6-2 Unallocated Space Remaining

Disk 1

Unallocated space left (gigabytes)

Unallocated space left (megabytes) 757 MB

Question

2

What is the number of the 1-GB partition you created earlier

in this exercise?

Partition Number 3.

Question

3

What is the result?

Diskpart Successfully extended the partition


14. Press Ctrl+P

rt Scr to take a screen shot of the Disk Management snap-in, showing the extended volume,

and then press Ctrl+V to paste the resulting image into the lab06_worksheet file in the page

provided.


Question

4

What is the result?

I can access the Server DC but I still do not see any intall

folder.

Exercise 6.3 Creating Additional Volumes

Overview

Karen is thrilled at the idea of storing her department’s data files in separate

volumes, and now she wants you to create more partitions on her server.

However, you used all of the available space to create her Karen1 volume.

Therefore, you have to shrink the Karen1 volume to create room for the

additional volumes she wants.


Question

5

How much available shrink space is contained in the volume?

549MB

Question

6

How is the last volume you created different from the

previous ones? Explain why.

The size of the volume is different. By shrinking the file it

made the volumes less than 2000MB

Question

7

What do you suppose would happen if you created another

simple volume out of the free space left on the disk?

I think that the it will run out of resourse.



volumes you created, and then press Ctrl+V to paste the resulting image into the



Exercise 6.4 Mounting a Volume

Overview

Karen calls yet again to tell you that she needs still more space on her

Karen1 volume, but is unable to expand it. You decide to provide her with

additional space by creating a volume and mounting it in a folder on the

Karen1 volume.


Question

8

Were you successful?

No, The extend option is grayed out.

Question

9

What is the result?

It was successful



volumes you created, and then press Ctrl+V to paste the resulting image into the



Table 6-3 Karen1 (S:) Properties

Megabytes Gigabytes

Used space 14,192, 640 bytes

Free space 89,612,299 bytes

Capacity 103,804,928

Question

10

Does the capacity of the S: drive reflect the addition of the

mounted Karen4 volume?

Yes, The capacity of Karen 4 is S.

Question

11

According to the status bar, how much free space is on the

Karen4 volume?

According to my volume on my V.PC it is 85.4MB

Question

12

Does the free space on Karen4 reflect the space available on

the Karen1 volume as well?

No, It is its own Partition and has no effect on others.


Exercise 6.5 Removing Volumes

Overview

The Accounting department server currently has five volumes on its disk:

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 just two volumes:

her original volume, plus one large data volume, which will be a spanned

volume that uses all of the available space on Disk 0 plus all of the space on

the second hard disk in the computer.


Question

13

Why doesn’t the disk space used by the Karen3 and Karen4

volumes appear in the Disk Management snap-in as

unallocated?

Because the space has already been shrunk, so not it is

just Free space of Disk 0.

Question

14

What is the maximum amount of space that you can use to

extend the Karen1 volume?

301 MB

Question

15

Why can’t you extend the Karen1 volume by using all of the

remaining space on the disk?

Because you can only extend space that is available on a

logical drive.


Workstation Reset: Returning to Baseline


To return the computer to its baseline state, complete the following procedure.

1. Open the Disk Management snap-in.

2. Delete all of the volumes on both disks except for the original C: volume that contains the

operating system.

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