How to Cheat at Microsoft Vista Administration

Chapter 4

Managing File Systems and Disks

Solutions in this chapter:

■ Managing Basic and Dynamic Disks

■ Managing File System Formats, Partitions, and Volumes

■ Increasing File System Performance

■ Sharing File Systems

■ Implementing Local and Network File System Security

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Introduction

Most computers have multiple file systems such as physical drives, network drives, and removable drives that you as the administrator need to manage. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to manage local and network disk drives and file systems. You will learn how to perform administrative file system tasks such as partitioning your disk drive, formatting your disk drive, sharing files with remote users, ...