When you create a physical volume on a server, a Volume object is automatically created in the NDS tree. By default, the name of the Volume object is the server's name with an underscore and the physical volume's name appended (example: YOSERVER_SYS).
A Volume object represents a physical volume on a server, whether it is a writable disk, a CD-ROM, or other storage medium. The Volume object in NDS does not contain information about the files and directories on that volume, though you can access that information through NWAdmin. File and directory information is retained in the file system itself.
Using NWAdmin, you can click the Volume icon to manage files and directories on that volume. NWAdmin provides information about the volume's free disk space, directory entry space, and compression statistics.
You can also create Volume objects in the NDS tree for NetWare 2 and NetWare 3 volumes.
In addition to the required Name and Host Volume properties, there are other important Volume properties.
This is the name of the Volume object in the NDS tree. By default, this name derives from the name of the physical volume, though you can change the object name.
This is the server on which the volume resides.
The Version property gives the NetWare or NDS version of the server hosting the volume.
This is the physical volume name. Since the actual Volume object name does not need to reflect the physical volume name, this property is necessary to associate the Volume object with the physical volume.