Right-click the unallocated partition and chooseĬlick on the green checkmark “Apply All Operations”
The hard drive is now empty, and the partition is unallocated
sudo apt-get install gparted sudo gparted In Gparted Make an MBR partitionĬhoose the correct hard drive like /dev/sdbĬlick on “Device” – “Create a partition table”Ĭhoose msdos and apply. Formatting the hard drive to ext 2/3 with gparted In terminal. To format Ext 2/3 hard drives, you can use a Raspberry Pi 400 or run Linux in Virtualbox on macs or windows. (2 TB limit)ĭoremi and Sony (and others) support MBR NTFS, but the recommended format is the Linux format Ext 2 or Ext 3 with an inode size of 128 that is read and executable only. The physical medium specification for DCPs is a USB 2/3 external hard drive formatted as MBR Ext 2/3. The physical medium specification for DCPs – Western Digital Caviar Black 2 TB 3.5 Inch Hard Drive The Cru Dataport Move Dock DX115 USB 2/3 with a USB cable The Cru Dataport DX-115 harddrive carrier/caddy:
Custom-made Pelican case/CRU DX115 KIT Use these parts: Pre-built CRU DCP KIT 3 with USB 2/3 adapter and hard drive pre-formatted to ext3: (Cinemas with non-standard USB2 connections most likely have their own adapters) You can supply a Y cable with the LaCie rugged hard drive to support powerless USB 2 ports. You can deliver DCPs on USB 2 hard drives, but the DX-115/move dock adapter also works with equipment that does not supply the standard power on the USB 2 port. If you are downloading a DCP and want to ingest it on a player/server, it can be simpler to format it to MBR NTFS.ĭCPs are often delivered on small USB 2/3 hard drives in a small Pelican case: NTFS can be an alternative to MBR Linux ext2/3. These hard drive caddies load directly into a lot of digital cinema equipment. The Cru Dataport DX-115 hard drive caddy with a USB 2/3 adapter is often used. The best common practice is to deliver the DCP on a Linux ext-2 USB 2 compatible hard drive.