Книга: Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage, Security, & Networking Pocket Consultant

Special considerations for basic and dynamic disks

Special considerations for basic and dynamic disks

Whether you’re working with basic or dynamic disks, you need to keep in mind five

special types of drive sections:

? Active The active partition or volume is the drive section for system caching and startup. Some devices with removable storage might be listed as having an active partition.

? Boot The boot partition or volume contains the operating system and its support files. The system and boot partition or volume can be the same.

? Crash dump The partition to which the computer attempts to write dump files in the event of a system crash. By default, dump files are written to the %SystemRoot% folder, but they can be located on any partition or volume.

? Page file A partition containing a paging file used by the operating system. Because a computer can page memory to multiple disks, according to the way virtual memory is configured, a computer can have multiple page file partitions or volumes.

? System The system partition or volume contains the hardware-specific files needed to load the operating system. The system partition or volume can’t be part of a striped or spanned volume.

REAL WORLD GPT is becoming the primary disk type for Windows Server. With Windows Server 2012 R2, a typical new disk has the GPT partition style with a recovery partition and an EFI system partition.

NOTE You can mark a partition as active by using Disk Management. In Disk Management, press and hold or right-click the primary partition you want to mark as active, and then tap or click Mark Partition As Active. You can’t mark dynamic disk volumes as active. When you convert a basic disk containing the active partition to a dynamic disk, this partition becomes a simple volume that’s active automatically.

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