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Partition All
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Disk Devices provide the underlying storage for SoftNAS and Storage Pools. Disk devices are attached to SoftNAS at the virtualization platform layer, often as virtual hard disks (e.g., VMDK in VMware, EBS volumes in EC2).
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Partition All finds all devices without a partition and creates a partition on each device.
Info Devices which are in use or already contain a partition are ignored.
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- Create
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- Partition adds a partition to a device that does not contain a partition
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Remove
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Partition removes an unused partition.
Info Devices which are marked as "Used in pool" are not eligible for partition removal.
Unmount
Unmount the disk device.
Refresh
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- Refresh will rescan the available devices and display
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- up-to-date information.
Add Device will add a new device configured to your liking.
Certain types of devices can be added at run-time. Click Add Device and choose the type of device to add, then follow the on-screen instructions for adding the device.
Delete Device
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Note On VMware, this option will not be present.
- Edit Device allows you to edit certain configuration settings of devices.
Delete Device will delete a dynamic device that is no longer in use
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Note: Many devices, once deleted, may not be recoverable.
Import Device
It is possible to import an existing disk. To import an existing disk, click Import, and follow the prompts.
Device
List of devices.
Total size
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Warning Many devices might not be recoverable once deleted!
- Device shows a list of devices.
- Total size shows the amount of data storage available on the raw device
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- before partitioning and
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- adding to a storage pool.
Make and
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model shows the vendor and model of the device
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Info The type of device is shown in parenthesis.
Device
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Usage provides details about how the device is currently used
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or what
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is necessary to make the device usable.
Info The device can be in one of
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three states:
- Needs partitioning
- Available to assign to a storage pool.
- Used in a pool
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Extra Disk Info
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- On some devices, Extra Disk Info will provide additional information.
