Windows 8.1 / Server 2012 R2
Disk management has been greatly simplified with the many new client and server cmdlets that ship with Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2.
Let’s start with looking at disks and partitions. This would list all disks you have mounted:
PS> Get-Disk
And this gets you the partitions:
PS> Get-Partition
Both cmdlets reside in the module “Storage”:
PS> Get-Command -Name Get-Disk | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Module
ModuleType Version Name ExportedCommands
---------- ------- ---- ----------------
Manifest 2.0.0.0 Storage {Add-InitiatorIdToMas...
This will show you all the other storage management commands found there:
PS> Get-Command -Module storage CommandType Name ModuleName ----------- ---- ---------- Alias Flush-Volume Storage Alias Initialize-Volume Storage Alias Write-FileSystemCache Storage Function Add-InitiatorIdToMaskingSet Storage Function Add-PartitionAccessPath Storage Function Add-PhysicalDisk Storage (...)
