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?
** Sent from my iPhone ** > On Nov 29, 2015, at 12:15 PM, Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote: > > 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 ? >
