Administrator Guide

16 Configuring Your NAS System
Disk Management
Disk Management is a system utility for managing hard disks and the
volumes or partitions that they contain. Disk Management allows you to
initialize disks, create volumes, and format volumes with the FAT, FAT32,
or NTFS file systems. It also helps perform most disk-related tasks without
restarting the system or interrupting users. Most configuration changes take
effect immediately.
The following sections describe additional disk management options in detail:
• Enabling Shadow Copies of Shared Folders
• Creating a New Volume
• Managing a Volume
•Extending a Volume
• Shrinking a Volume
• Deleting a Volume
• Enabling or Disabling SIS on a Volume
Distributed File System Management
Distributed File System (DFS) is not enabled on your system by default. To
enable DFS:
1
Launch Server Manager and click File Services located in the Roles Tree .
2 Locate and click the Add Role Services link.
3 Select DFS and complete the wizard.
Namespaces
DFS namespaces allow you to group shared folders that are located on different
servers into one or more logically structured namespaces. Each namespace
appears to users as a single shared folder with a series of subfolders. However,
the underlying structure of the namespace can consist of numerous shared
folders that are located on different servers and in multiple sites.
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