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Affected Roles: Administrator, Owner
Related Digital Watchdog VMS Apps: DW Spectrum® IPVMS
Complexity: Medium to High
Last Edit: October 26, 2020
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From time to time, you may desire to clear storage space on your DW Blackjack® Server. While the DW Blackjack® Server will overwrite full storage in coordination with DW Spectrum® IPVMS, some users may opt to completely format the DW Media drive partition. Example situations include if the system owner is leaving the location and is leaving the DW Blackjack® Server behind for another user, footage corruption has occurred, or if they just want to erase all video records for personal reasons.
This article will outline how to format a DW Blackjack® Server utilizing an Ubuntu/Linux operating system. If you are installing a replacement hard drive and are creating a new partition, please use Mounting A New Drive (Ubuntu/Linux) instead.
**Note: There is no way to delete specific sections of video footage from the DW Spectrum® system. To format/clear system storage is to completely delete all video records. Digital Watchdog is not liable if you choose to do this, so please do so at your own discretion.
To perform the format process, you must be directly at the DW Spectrum® Server itself. If so, perform the following:
To stop the DW Mediaserver:
**NOTE: For older DW Blackjack units purchased prior to June 18, 2021, the previously utilized default Linux OS login was “admin/admin”.
To clear DW Media storage on a drive that is also hosting the operating system (OS) and recovery partitions:
Using the Unity search program, search for “Disks”, then launch the Disks tool.
The partition will become highlighted once selected.
Allow the system to completely format the partition.
Repeat Step 2 through Step 4 to format the remaining storage.
To start the DW Mediaserver:
This completes the formatting process of a DW Blackjack® Server.