ITM 315 Chapter 7: ITM315 – Chapter 7.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 315
• Professor: Karim Mourad

Document Summary

Recognizes primary and extended partitions: formatting: creates a table containing file/folder information for a specific fie, volume: logical designation of disk storage, created from one of more physical system in a partition. disks, raid: can be configured into 3 raid levels, level 0 (disk striping): spreads data over multiple disks or volume, level 1 (disk mirroring): creates mirror image of all data on the original, level 5 (disk striping with parity): disk, mbr (master boot record): contains startup information about partitions and how to access the disk. Partition table: contains information about each partition created: guid (global unique identifier) gpt (partition table): never way to partition disk, part of the unified extensible firmware interface approach, gpt disks: stores partition information about each partition in main and, gpt partition: up to 18 exabytes backup tables, conversion: can convert mbr to gpt, and vice versa.