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Re: can hot-add of new disk be recognized in rescue mode?



No intention to read that usb on windows. Just that we had formatted it on win in the beginning. Can i format that usb as ext4 in win? Or how do i format it as ext4 in ununtu in rescue mode?

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> On Nov 29, 2015, at 12:15 PM, Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
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> Aman Nangia a écrit :
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Sorry, I know nothing about SAS.
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> Why use a Windows filesystem instead of a Linux one such as ext4 ? Do
> you intend to read the data on a Windows system ?
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