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Chapter 7 Storage

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7.4.3 Creating a USB Volume

Click the Create a USB

Volume button in the Storage > Volume screen as

shown in

Section 7.4 on page 147

to open the following screen. Use this screen to

create a new NSA external disk drive volume.

Note: Creating a volume formats the drive. All data on the disk will be lost.

Figure 50 Storage > Volume > Create a USB Volume

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 22 Storage > Volume > Create a USB 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

NTFS: Recommended for volumes greater than 40 GB.

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: Most commonly used on Linux platforms.

EXT3: The same as EXT2, but adds a journaled file system and is

more robust.

ReiserFS: Offers better performance for small files.

XFS: Allows expansion for mounted volumes.

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