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Chapter 6 Storage Screens
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Creating a volume formats the drive. All data on the disk will be lost.
Figure 62 System > Storage > Create an External Volume
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
6.8 External Disks
You may connect USB storage devices that support the following file systems to the NSA.
• Windows File Systems: NTFS, FAT32 and FAT16.
• Linux File Systems: ReiserFS, EXT2, and EXT3.
Table 19 System > Storage > Create an External Volume
LABEL DESCRIPTION
Volume Name Type a volume name from 1 to 31 characters. The name cannot be the same as
another existing external volume.
Acceptable characters are all alphanumeric characters and " " [spaces], "_"
[underscores], and "." [periods].
The first character must be alphanumeric (A-Z 0-9).
The last character cannot be a space " ".
Available Disk(s) Select the external (USB) device upon which you want to create the volume.
File System Select the file system you want the new volume to use.
Windows file systems
FAT32: Newer, and more efficient than FAT16. Supports a volume size of up to
2 TB (Tera Bytes) and individual file sizes of up to 4 GB.
FAT16: Compatible with older Windows operating systems. Supports volume
and file sizes of up to 2 GB.
Linux file systems
EXT2: Older file system.
EXT3: The same as EXT2, but adds a journaled file system and is more robust.
ReiserFS: Offers better performance for small files.
Apply Click this button to save your changes back to the NSA and create the volume.
Cancel Click this button to exit this screen without saving changes.