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Installing the VideoEdge NVR

The Expert Partitioner page opens.

3 Se

lect the disk on which you want to create the media partition from the system view tree.

This can be either the hard disk on the NVR itself or on separate RAID or FRS storage

devices. If a hard disk on the NVR itself this would be the third physical drive in the system

tree and typically named sdc.

Note

Disks may have existing partitions. If this is the case they should be deleted

before reconfiguring a storage device by adding partitions. Deleting any storage

partitions will destroy any existing data.

4 Click Add.

5 Select

either Primary Partition or Extended Partition.

Note

A Primary Partition contains one file system. Up to four primary partitions can be

created on a single hard drive.



An Ex

tended Partition is a primary partition that has been divided up into logical

partitions as a means of creating more partitions than the four that would

otherwise be possible. Only one primary partition can be used as an extended

partition, and it can be created from any of the primary partitions. The logical

partitions do not need to fill the entire extended partition.

6 Enter the required partition size. You can select the Maximum Size option to use the

remaining disk space, or select Custom Size and enter the amount of disk space (GB) you

want to allocate to the partition.

Choose an allocated region on the disk for the partition by entering a Start Cylinder and

End Cylinder

Note

In order to use a disk partition for storage it must meet the minimum storage

capacity requirements, 10GB.

7 Select Next

8 If

you are creating an extended partition, go to Step 18, otherwise continue to Step 10.

9 Click

the Format partition option button.

10 Select

XFS from the File System dropdown.

11 Enter the Mou

nt Point for the media partition, for example, /data/media1.

12 Sele

ct the Fstab Options... button.

13 Sele

ct the Volume Label option button.

14 Enter a Vo

lume Label in the field.

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