Summary
Sub-menu: /disk
Since v6.20 release, attached storage is now managed in "/disk" sub-menu, instead of the previous "/store disk" menu.
- This menu will list all attached storage devices, presuming that they are supported and in working condition.
- As a note, Webproxy and User manager stores as now shown as directories in "/files menu". When configuring webproxy cache or usermanager database you will now be asked to write in the actual full path of the directory where you want these stores to be created.
This is especially useful for RouterBOARD devices with SD/CF/USB slots and x86 systems with additional dedicated storage drives - as the built-in storage is quite small, an external drive comes in very handy when you want a big User Manager database, proxy cache or possibly SMB shares on your router.
You can add as many external or secondary drives as you want, and select any number of them for each of the mentioned feature usages. For example, User Manager could be used on 3 disks, one of them would be the active database, and the rest would be backups. You can then add a fourth disk, copy the active data to it - unmount - unplug it - and move to another server, to keep using the actual database. This means migration and backup are made easy!
Note: If you are still running older releases than v6.20 please check this article: article for more info on Stores in v6.19 and older releases.
Note: Max supported partition size in RouterOS is 2TB and larger hard disk drives will not work. Except on CCR routers (Tile architecture), it is possible to use a larger HDD in RouterOS if it is formatted with multiple partitions each smaller than 2TB.
Examples
Formatting attached storage unit - Simple
1. Disk is attached, and already mounted automatically by the system.
[admin@MikroTik] > /disk print # NAME LABEL TYPE DISK FREE SIZE 0 disk1 usb-flash ext3 00 7.1GiB 7.2GiB