Exclusive Regions
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# Exclusive Regions |

Exclusive regions are areas on any object visible on the the R-Linux's Drives panel that are excluded from disk operations. R-Linux never tries to read/write data from/to such area. Exclusive regions are necessary when, for example, there are areas with bad sectors on a hard drive, and it is necessary to avoid any disk operations with such areas to not inflict further damage to such drive and to speed work with it. Note: R-Linux does not create anything real on the disk. Exclusive regions are virtual objects that do not affect actual data on the disk. To create an exclusive region
1 | Right-click an object on the R-Linux's Drives panel and select Create Exclusive Region on the shortcut menu, or
Select the object and select Create Exclusive Region on the Create menu
2 | Specify required parameters on the Create Exclusive Region dialog box and click the Add button
Create Exclusive Region dialog box ### Exclusive Region options
Offset: | Start point of the exclusive region
Size: | Size of the exclusive region. Cannot be larger than Disk size.
Numbers in these fields can be in bytes or sectors. See Data Formats and Multipliers for more details.
> | An Exclusive Region object will appear on the Drives panel.
Its properties can be seen on the Excluded Areas tab. To delete an exclusive region
* | Select an Exclusive Region on the R-Linux Drives panel and click the Delete button, or
Right-click the selected region and select Remove Region on the context menu. To change the size of an exclusive region
* | Right-click an Exclusive Region on the R-Linux Drives panel, select Edit on the context menu, and add/delete excluded areas on the Edite Exclusive Region tab.
You may delete an excluded area by right-clicking it and selecting Remove on the context menu.