Administrator Guide

Steps
1 Start Server Manager, from the Tools menu, select Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management.
2 In Disk Management, right-click the Basic Volume you want to shrink.
3 Click Shrink Volume.
The Shrink <volume name> window is displayed.
4 Complete the instructions on your screen and click Shrink.
NOTE: You can only shrink basic volumes that have no le system or use the NTFS le
system.
Additional considerations when shrinking a volume
• When you shrink a partition, unmovable les (for example, the page le or the shadow copy storage area) are not automatically
relocated and you cannot decrease the allocated space beyond the point where the unmovable les are located.
• If the number of bad clusters detected by dynamic bad-cluster remapping is more, you cannot shrink the partition. If this occurs, you
should consider moving the data and replacing the disk.
• Do not use a block-level copy to transfer the data. The block-level copy also copies the bad sector table and the new disk treats the
same sectors as bad even though they are normal.
• You can shrink primary partitions and logical drives on raw partitions (those without a le system) or partitions using the NTFS le
system.
Deleting a volume
About this task
To delete a volume:
CAUTION
: You must delete all shares and shadow copies from your volume before deleting it. If a volume is removed before all
shares of that volume have been removed, the Server Manager might not display shares correctly.
Steps
1 Start Server Manager, from the Tools menu, click Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management.
2 In Disk Management, right-click the Volume you want to delete and select the Delete Volume option.
The Delete Simple Volume conrmation window is displayed.
3 Select Yes on the conrmation screen to delete the volume.
Additional information when deleting a volume
New features of disk management include:
Simpler partition
creation
When you right-click a Volume, you can select to create a basic-spanned-or striped partition directly from the
menu.
Disk conversion
options
When you add more than four partitions to a basic disk, you are prompted to convert the disk to dynamic or to the
GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition style.
Extend and shrink
partitions
You can extend and shrink partitions directly from the Windows interface.
Data deduplication
Data Deduplication feature works at a sub-le level and stores more data in less space by segmenting les into small chunks. This feature
identies duplicate data and maintains a single copy of each data chunk. The les are compressed and organized in special container les in
the System Volume Information folder.
Using your NAS system
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