Hi - I’m new to running a node. I have a Start9 and I’m looking to back it up. I bought a Crucial X9 Pro SSD for the back up. Apparently I need to format it in EXT4. Has anyone done that before? Can it be formatted from the Start9 or should I do that from my Windows desktop? I’ll likely have more questions but I need to start somewhere. Thanks in advance.
You can do it from StartOS since StartOS is a Linux distro… but it involves typing in commands. If you want to have a really east time of it, I would do the following…
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Download and Flash something like Ubuntu to a USB thumb drive, the same as this part of this guide, but with the downloaded Ubuntu ISO instead.
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Plug in this USB thumb drive to your Windows device, restart Windows and boot to the USB
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Ubuntu will give the the option of wiping Windows completely (not a bad idea as Windows is spyware) or simply running temporarily off the USB in liveboot mode (nothing gets installed, nothing wiped)
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With Ubuntu running, plug in your fancy external SSD. The go to the disk utilities application. Wipe the plugged in external SSD and format to EXT4 (maybe sure you select the right drive).
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To confirm this has worked, drag and drop any file onto the drive.
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Choose to Shutdown from Ubuntu, when shut down, remove both the external SSD and the Ubuntu USB from the Windows device, then boot back on. Your External SSD is now ready to work as a StartOS backup device.
Thank you very much. I’ll give this a try.
I’m not averse to typing commands either. Do you know if someone has outlined the steps doing from StartOS?
The commands aren’t specific to StartOS… just basic linux drive mounting and formatting. You’d need to follow the SSH guide first to get access to the command line.
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