The Disk Management Command Line Utility component provides a command-line utility for managing disks and volumes. This component uses the Diskpart.exe application and is scriptable. It can be used to perform disk-related tasks, such as creating partitions and volumes and assigning drive letters....
You can create several types of redundant storage in Windows, including using the Disk Management tool to create mirrored volumes and parity, or the Storage Spaces app to create two-way or three-way mirrors. Mirrored volumes and two-way mirror require two disks, parity requires...
The primary GUI for managing disks in Windows Server 2008 is the Disk Management console, Diskmgmt.msc, shown in Figure 19-1, which can be run stand-alone or as part of Server Manager. The primary command-line tool for managing disks is DiskPart.exe. Figure 19-1The Disk Management consol...
Manage disks at the command line by using DiskPart. Use the new command-line tool DiskPart to perform disk-related tasks at the command line as an alternative to using the Disk Management snap-in. When you use DiskPart, you can create scripts to automate tasks, such as creating volumes ...
You can add a pause between consecutive DiskPart scripts by adding the time-out /t 15 command to your batch file together with your DiskPart scripts.For more information about using DiskPart in Disk Management, see this Microsoft Web site....
Use the command-line tool DiskPart to perform disk-related tasks at the command line as an alternative to using Disk Management. With DiskPart, you can create scripts to automate tasks, such as creating volumes or converting disks to dynamic. For more information, see Managing disks and volume...
You also have the option of using the command line to convert a basic disk to a dynamic disk. The utility you would use isdiskpart.exe.DiskPart can do everything Disk Management can in the user interface. This command can be invaluable to administrators who use scripts.Figure 4.3displays ...
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