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Disk Management
77 NAS 4000s and 9000s Administration Guide
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When managing basic disks, only the last partition on the disk can be extended unless the
disk is changed to dynamic.
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Basic disks can be converted to dynamic without bringing the system offline or loss of
data, but the volume will be unavailable during the conversion.
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Basic disks can contain up to four primary partitions (or three primary partitions and one
extended partition).
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Format drives with a 16 K allocation size for best support of snapshots, performance, and
defragmentation.
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NTFS formatted drives are recommend since they provide the greatest level of support for
snapshots, encryption, and compression.
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Only basic disks can be formatted as FAT or FAT32. Dynamic disks are not supported, nor
can they be configured in a cluster.
Volumes Page
On the Volumes page, administrators can select to manage volumes, schedule
defragmentation, and set or manage quotas. The Volumes page displays all volumes that are
formatted NTFS on the system. It does not display the volume type (for example simple or
spanned) nor volumes that are FAT32 or FAT. To display these types of volumes, click
Manage. All volumes are displayed.
See the Managed Disks page to view a list of disks, and the volumes assigned to them. The
drive letters for volumes that encompass multiple disks appear on multiple rows on the display.