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

Select the object and select Create Exclusive Region on the Create menu

Exclusive Region options

Its properties can be seen on the Excluded Areas tab.

To delete an exclusive region

Right-click the selected region and select Remove Region on the context menu.

To change the size of an exclusive region

You may delete an excluded area by right-clicking it and selecting Remove on the context menu.