Format The External Volume - ZyXEL Communications NAS326 User Manual

Table 47 Storage Manager > External Storage (continued)
LABEL
Capacity
Shared Folder

5.5.3 Format the External Volume

This allows you to format the connected USB disk. Click Storage Manager > External Storage > Format to
show the following screen.
Note: Formatting the disk will also delete all your data in the USB drive. If the connected
external volume has more than one partition, you can choose which partition you want
to format.
Figure 77 Storage Manager > External Storage > Format
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 48 Storage Manager > External Storage > Format
LABEL
Volume Name
File System
Apply
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DESCRIPTION
This field shows total disk size, the percentage of the volume being used and the percentage
that is available. If the status is Unsupported, the capacity displays "Unknown". If the status is
Unformatted, the capacity displays "--".
This field displays the folder that shares files. Roll your mouse over the link and click it to
display the files in the File Browser.
DESCRIPTION
Type a volume name from 1 to 31 characters.
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 " ".
Select the file system you want the new volume to use.
Windows file systems
NTFS: Recommended.
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.
EXFAT: Designed to bridge the gap between the NTFS file system and the older FAT32 file
system. It is a 64-bit file system that can store files over 4 GB.
Linux file systems
EXT2: Older file system.
EXT3: The same as EXT2, but adds a journaled file system and is more robust.
EXT4: Supports larger files and better performance than EXT3.
Click this to save your changes and format the disk.
Click this to exit this screen without saving changes.
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