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Chapter 6 — Configuring and Managing Partitions
3. Select Automatically create a partition from the initial Shared Library
Manually Create a Partition Use the following steps to create a storage
partition using the partition wizard.
1. Log in as a user with superuser or administrator privileges. If you want
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Services screen (see Figure 84 on page 172) and click New.
 This option is only available if all of the drives in the library
Notes:
are of the same type (LTO or TS11xx technology) and there
are currently no partitions, including cleaning partitions.
 If you want to use Auto Drive Clean with the partition and
the library does not contain unlicensed chambers, you need
to modify the partition after it is created to remove some of
the chambers assigned to it so that you can create a cleaning
partition.
 If you want to use the Global Spare option with the partition,
you need to modify the partition after it is created to
unassign one or more of the drives that were automatically
assigned to the partition, and then reassign those drives as
Global Spares.
 If you want to use encryption with the partition, you need to
modify the partition after it is created to enable encryption
(see the Spectra Tape Libraries Encryption User Guide).
to configure encryption in the partition, you must also log in as an
encryption user (see the Spectra Tape Libraries Encryption User Guide for
more details).
Creating a Storage Partition
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