LaCie 2big Network
User Manual
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3.7.3.3. Accessing External Hard Drives
Attached external hard drives and their partitions
appears as shares on the Browse page. See section
4, Ac-
cessing the Shared Storage
.
TeChNICAl NOTe:
When shares are created from
partitioned external hard drive volumes, they are inti-
tally named with a series of numbers and letters. You can
rename the shares on the Shares page.
Once the drive is recognized, users can be assigned
access just like other shares (by default, users will not
have access). See section
3.4, Users
.
Partitions
If the external USB drive is partitioned, each vol-
ume will appear as one share in the 2big Network (Fig.
3.7.3.3). By default, all services (FTP, HTML, etc.) are
activated.
In Fig. 3.7.3.3, the volumes “LaCie1” and “LaCie2”
are volumes of a partitioned external hard drive that
is not connected to the 2big Network, as indicated by
the gray Status indicator. The volumes “Scranton” and
“Stamford” are volumes of an external drive that is cur-
rently connected, as indicated by the blue Status indica-
tors.
ImpOrTANT INfO:
The 2big Network supports
drives formatted with the following file systems: MS-
DOS/FAT 32, NTFS in read-only mode, HFS+ and
Linux file system formats (ext2/ext3/reiserfs).
Figure 3.7.3.3
