Icy Box IB-NAS2001, User Manual

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OS file system accessibility via USB
File system Operating systems capable accessing via USB
EXT2 • Linux
EXT3 • Linux
FAT32 • Windows (98,NT, ME, 2000, XP, 2003)
• OS X (Mac)
• Linux
File system features
File system Features
EXT2 • write protection
• archive bit
• user level access control
EXT3 • write protection
• archive bit
• user level access control
• quota
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FAT32 • write protection
• archive bit
• Unicode file names
File system limits
File system
max.
filename
length
allowed
filename
characters
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max.
pathname
length
max. file
size
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max. volume
size
EXT2 255 byte any byte
except NUL
no limit
defined
2 TiB 32 TiB
EXT3 255 byte any byte
except NUL no limit
defined 2 TiB 32 TiB
FAT32 255 byte Unicode except
NUL
no limit
defined
4 GiB 2 TiB
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A quota is a limit to be set for the maximum disk space a user or group can use.
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Characters like “/”, “\” or “:” are also not allowed, because they are reserved by the syntax of command line interface shells
of the different operating systems.
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Gi and Ti represent the IEC standard prefixes, which are the binary equivalent of the referring SI prefix witch means that
instead of using a factor based on 1000 (10
3
) a factor based on 1024 (2
10
) is used. Example: 300 GB = 279,5 GiB