Creating A Usb Volume - ZyXEL Communications NSA 210 User Manual

Chapter 7 Storage

7.4.3 Creating a USB Volume

Click the Create a USB Volume button in the Storage > Volume screen as
shown in
create a new NSA external disk drive volume.
Note: Creating a volume formats the drive. All data on the disk will be lost.
Figure 84 Storage > Volume > Create a USB Volume
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 24 Storage > Volume > Create a USB Volume
LABEL
Volume Name
Available
Disk(s)
File System
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DESCRIPTION
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 " ".
Select the external (USB) device upon which you want to create the
volume.
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.
to open the following screen. Use this screen to
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