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18 OES 2: NetWare Traditional File System Administration Guide
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2 Type your administrator username (such as admin) and password.
3 Click OK.
The management interface opens in your Web browser.
The Partition Disks page displays the server disk’s layout according to the physical connections in
your server. It uses indentation to indicate where a volume physically resides. It lists adapters,
devices, partitions, Traditional volumes, and free space at different levels of indentation.
Depending on what tasks can be performed on the listed storage item, Novell Remote Manager for
NetWare displays task-based links next to the devices, Traditional volumes, and free space:
 Create: Create a new volume on the selected device.
 Mirror: Create a mirrored partition on the selected device.
 Expand: Expand an existing Traditional volume or software RAID1 device (mirrored
partition).
 Rename: Change the name of the Traditional NetWare partition or Traditional volume.
 Delete: Remove the Traditional NetWare partition or Traditional volume. Deleting a partition
or volume destroys all the data in it.
 Remove Mirror: Remove a mirrored partition from the mirrored group (a software RAID1
device).
You must assign the free space on the disk to create a Traditional volume. With Traditional volumes,
you assign physical volume segments from physical partitions on multiple devices. There are
physical limitations in how you combine member segments to create the volume. For information,
see Section 1.2, “Traditional Volume Segments,” on page 12.
3.2 Managing NetWare Partitions for Traditional
Volumes
NetWare partitions can be created on any hard drive and can coexist with other partitions such as
DOS, Windows*, and UNIX. Disk space not assigned to NetWare partitions can be used for the
Novell Storage Services
TM
file system.
When there is a DOS partition on the drive, it should always be the first partition on the device. The
NetWare partition should always be the last partition on the drive.
You can have as many as four partitions on the same drive, including multiple NetWare partitions.
If you have partitions from previous versions of NetWare that you are no longer using, you can
delete them and create a new NetWare partition.
WARNING: When creating a disk partition, never specify a partition size larger than the actual size
of the disk. If you specify a larger size, NetWare eventually tries to use the excess disk space. When
it determines there is no corresponding disk location, it deactivates the volume stored on the disk.
For more information, see Chapter 3, “Configuring and Managing NetWare Traditional Volumes,”
on page 17.