Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 Inside Out

Chapter 20. Managing Windows Server 2003 File Systems

• Understanding Disk and File System Structure

• Using FAT

• Using NTFS

• Advanced NTFS Features

• Using File-Based Compression

• Managing Disk Quotas

• Maintaining File System Integrity

• Defragmenting Disks

The previous chapter discussed storage management, which primarily focuses on storage technologies and techniques for configuring storage. As discussed in that chapter, disks can be apportioned in many ways but ultimately must be formatted with a particular file system. The file system provides the environment for working with files and folders. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 provides two basic file system types: File Allocation Table (FAT) and NTFS file system (NTFS). These file systems are discussed in this ...