Disks

Mapping physical disks to logical drives

We have looked at physical disks and logical disks. We know there is a relationship between them.

disk drive – partition – logical disk

In WMI this maps to.

Win32_DiskDrive - Win32_DiskPartition - Win32_LogicalDisk.DeviceID

We have two classes that provide the...

Disks Part 4: Mount points

We have seen how to discover our physical and logical disks.  In a quick digression I want to cover Mount Points.  These allow us to mount the volume into an empty folder in the file system rather than having a new drive. They are useful when we have lots of volumes and need to...

Disks Part 3

We have seen how to use Win32_DiskDrive to look at our physical disks but this isn’t the whole story. We also need to consider logical disks or volumes

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January 5, 2010  1:58 PM

Disks Part 2

Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Disks

 

Moving swiftly on from last time we can expand the information returned on our disks

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January 3, 2010  8:36 AM

Disks Part 1

Posted by: Richard Siddaway
Disks

Disk storage and everything associated with that is a big part of administering our servers. We need to be able to discover, and where necessary, work with the storage system. WMI gives us a number of classes for working with disks

PS> Get-WmiObject -List Win32_*disk* | select name...

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