Formatting external drive with ext4

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I’m on the hunt for external drive for backing up the Start9 servers but I see that I have to format with ext4 but unfortunately I cant format them using a Mac or a PC without using third party tool’s.

So, I imagine to solve this issue would be to flash Ubuntu on a USB stick that will be boot-able and then use ubuntu disk utilities to format drives to ext?

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Yes. Just boot into Ubuntu, plug in the drive, and open the drive in GParted. From GParted, delete any partitions that were already on the drive, and then create a new partition of type ext4.

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