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USB Volumes

The USB screen displays the USB
disk and flash devices connected to
the ReadyNAS, and offers various
options for these devices. A flash
device appears as USB_FLASH_1,
and a disk device appears as
USB_HDD_1.
When no USB is attached, the "No
USB storage devices detected"
message displays.
When multiple devices are attached, they are appended by an increasing device number, for
example, USB_HDD_2.
When the device contains multiple partitions, the partitions are listed beneath the main device
entry.
Partitions
Partitions on the storage devices must be one of the following file system formats:
FAT32, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3. To the right of the access icons are command options.
The following commands are available:
Table 3. Partition Commands
Disconnect This option prepares the USB partition for disconnection by correctly
unmounting the file system. In most cases, you can safely disconnect the
device without first unmounting; however, the Disconnect command ensures
that any data still in the write cache is written to the disks and that the file
system is correctly closed. The Disconnect option unmounts all partitions on
the device. Once the device is disconnected, physically remove and
re-connect to the network storage to regain access the USB device,.
Locate In cases where you attach multiple storage devices and want to determine
which device corresponds to the device listing, the Locate command causes
the device LED to blink, if the device is present.
Format This option formats the device as a FAT32 file system. FAT32 format is easily
FAT32 recognizable by most newer Windows, Linux, and Unix operating systems.
Format EXT3 This option formats the device as an EXT3 file system. Select this option if
you will be accessing the USB device mainly from Linux systems or network
storage devices. The advantage of EXT3 over FAT32 is that file ownership
and mode information can be retained using this format, whereas this
capability is not there with FAT32. Although not natively present in the base
operating system, EXT3 support for Windows and OS X can be added.
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