5.In the Assign Drive Letter or Path window, select either the Assign a drive letter or Mount this volume at an empty folder that supports drive paths option and click Next. Possible choices are shown in the following graphics.

Figure 17 Assigning a drive letter

Figure 18 Mounting a volume to an empty folder

6.In the next step of the Create Partition Wizard, accept the default options by clicking Next.

7.Click Finish to close the Create Partition Wizard and format the newly created partition.

For information on the access modes that are available for HSM file systems on the Windows platform, see ”HSM file system access modes” on page 148.

The next step, configuring an FSE partition, is described in ”Configuring a regular FSE partition on the Windows platform” on page 75. For a WORM FSE partition configuration, see ”Configuring a WORM FSE partition” on page 78.

Integrating existing file systems in the FSE implementation

Integrating existing file systems on the Linux platform

On the Linux platform, existing Ext3 file systems residing on LVM volumes can be used, provided they are remounted as HSM file systems after the belonging FSE partitions are configured.

For details on how to integrate existing file systems on the Linux platform, see the FSE installation guide for Linux, appendix ”Integrating existing file systems in the FSE implementation”, section ”Integrating existing file systems”.

The next step, configuring an FSE partition, is described in the FSE user guide, section ”Configuring a regular FSE partition on the Linux platform” on page 73. For a WORM FSE partition configuration, see ”Configuring a WORM FSE partition” on page 78.

Integrating existing file systems on the Windows platform

On the Windows platform, you can use existing disk volumes (partitions); you only need to dismount the Windows native NTFS file system, and configure the corresponding FSE partitions afterwards.

For details on how to integrate existing file systems on the Windows platform, see the FSE installation guide for Windows, appendix ”Integrating existing file systems in the FSE implementation”, section ”Integrating existing file systems”.

The next step, configuring an FSE partition, is described in the FSE user guide, section ”Configuring a regular FSE partition on the Windows platform” on page 75. For a WORM FSE partition configuration, see ”Configuring a WORM FSE partition” on page 78.

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File System Extender (FSE) specifications

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