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External Disks, Table 23, LABEL, DESCRIPTION
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Chapter 8 Storage Note: Creating a volume formats the drive. All data on the disk will be lost. Figure 78 Storage > Create an External Volume The following table describes the labels in this screen. Table 23 Storage > Create an External Volume LABEL Volume Name 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). Available Disk(s) File System 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. 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 Apply Cancel EXT2: Older file system. 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. Click this to save your changes and create the volume. Click this to exit this screen without saving changes. 8.5.1 External Disks You may connect USB storage devices that support the following file systems to the NSA. • Windows File Systems: NTFS, FAT32 and FAT16. • Linux File Systems: ReiserFS, EXT2, EXT3, and XFS. Media Server User's Guide 165