Features of creating an archive as a disk in Linux OS

To allocate the disk for recording, run the command as a root.

sudo su

fdisk -l

where

• /dev/sda—the first physical disk;
• /dev/sda1—the first partition of the first physical disk;
• /dev/sda2—the second partition of the first physical disk;
• dev/sdb—the second physical disk.

To delete the disk partition, do the following:

1. Go to the disk on which you want to delete a partition.

   fdisk /dev/sdb

2. Delete the partition.

   d

3. Specify the partition number.

   2

4. Save the changes.

   w

To create apartition, do the following:

1. Go to the disk on which you want to create a partition.

   fdisk /dev/sdb

2. Create the partition.

   n

3. Specify the partition type: primary (p) or extended (e).

   p

4. Specify the partition number.

   1

5. Specify the partition size. G—gigabytes, M—megabytes, K—kilobytes.

   +5G

6. Save the changes.

   w

To create the archive as a disk, do the following:

1. Create a new archive in the Axxon One Client (see Creating a local archive).
2. Select the archive volume.
3. Specify the path to partition in the address window. For example: /dev/sdb1. If it is required to use the whole disk as an archive, specify the /dev/sdc, /dev/sdd, and so on.

4. Set the Format checkbox and click the Apply button.

   Attention!

   At this point you cannot change the archive size.