Re: can hot-add of new disk be recognized in rescue mode?
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> On Nov 29, 2015, at 4:25 AM, Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
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> aman nangia a écrit :
>> hi,
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>> can hot-add of new disk be recognized under rescue mode when booted
>> from linux dvd by any chance? (bcz we were able to see the data from the
>> boot drive after mounting it to /b, thought to back up the data. The
>> data is ~80-90gb and thought to insert a new disk in front
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> What do you meand by "insert in front" ? What kind of disk is it ?
146gb sas (2.5" drive). There were 2 empty slots in the hp gen7 system in the front. I inserted this spare new disk in one of the slots.
> Is the host controller hot-swap capable ? If it is a SATA disk,it may
> require to run in AHCI mode to enable hot-swap.
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>> But the problem is that the max size of any file when written to usb is
>> approx 4.2gb only
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> USB has nothing to do with file size limits. It all depends on the
> filesystem. FAT limits files to about 4 Gio with 512-byte sectors. NTFS
> and ext4 have a much higher limit.
>
Will try ntfs format in the usb.
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