Before we look at the management and configuration of disk and volumes, it is important to be familiar with the building blocks of a Windows Server 2016 storage system.
A filesystem is a part of the operating system that controls how files are organized, named, and stored on a volume. A filesystem manages folders, files, and the information needed to locate and access these items by local users or remote users. Windows Server 2016 supports four file systems: File Allocation Table (FAT), FAT32, NTFS, and Resilient File System (ReFS).
FAT is sometimes referred to as FAT16 and has been present since MS-DOS. FAT32 was introduced with Windows 95 OSR2 and has been supported in Microsoft Windows operating systems since then. FAT uses a 16-bit file-allocation table entry while FAT32 has a 32-bit file-allocation entry.
The following table shows...