Edimax Technology NS-2502 - Manual (Page 54)

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Parameters Description
Auto Partition &
Format
By clicking this button, the system will partition and format the
attached storage device automatically. Please refer to the detail
descriptions below.
Tool
You can format the attached storage device by this tool. The
Storage Tools supports FAT16, FAT32, EXT2 and EXT3 format.
The format may take several minutes to finish, depends on the size
of the partition.
Note: The data originally stored in the partition will be erased after
the format even you stop it before the job is finished.
Add a Partition
By clicking “Add” button, you can launch the “Add a Partition page”
to add a new partition in the attached storage device.
Remove Selected
Partitions
You can click “Remove Selected Partitions” button to remove the
selected partitions in the attached storage device.
Note: The data originally stored in the partitions will be erased after
they are removed.
Remove All
Partitions
You can click “Remove All Partitions” to remove all the partitions in
the attached storage device.
Note: The data originally stored in the partitions will be erased after
they are removed.
Reset You can click “Reset” to reset selection in partition list.
Auto Partition & Format
This function will build partition and format the attached storage device according to the
following rules.
Note: The data originally stored in the attached storage device will completely disappear
after you doing “Auto Partition & Format” even you stop it before the job is finished.
Note: The rules of internal SATA hard disk drive and external USB mass storage device
are different.
Internal SATA hard disk drive:
(i) It creates a single partition with the size of the whole SATA disk drive.
(ii) It formats the created partition by EXT2 format.
External USB mass storage device:
(i) If the size of the USB mass storage device is larger than 160GB, it divides
the USB mass storage device into several 160GB partitions. The size of the
last partition may be less than 160GB. Otherwise, it creates a single partition
with the size of the whole USB mass storage device.
(ii) If formats all the created partitions by FAT32 format.
Note: During the process, user can click the “Stop” button to stop the job before it is
finished and back to Storage tools page to add or remove partition manually.