Instruction Manual

15-3 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: It creates a single partition with the size of the whole USB mass storage device.

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.

You can select “FAT32” or “EXT2” as format of the USB mass storage device. If you want

to plug the USB mass storage device into a Windows PC later, please select “FAT32”. If

the USB mass storage device is dedicated for the storage server and will not be plugged

to other devices including PCs, please select “EXT2” to get better performance.