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submitted 1 week ago by OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I have a small external backup drive where I dump my phone camera captures and archive YouTube channels - nothing special; a few terabytes, mostly mp4s.

Is there anything I need to do before/after I swap?

If it matters, the drive is 9TB, formatted as NTFS, and connected via USB 3.0.

I also have 4 internal drives, but I'm not so much worried about them, as I plan on just formatting everything but the external.

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[-] Maiq@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There are no stupid questions.

Linux has been able to read any drive I have ever tried. NTFS is readable and writeable. I would bet almost all distros support ntfs. if they dont you can install ntfs-3g.

Edit: i dont usually use ntfs so I went and had a quick search, to make sure I wasnt wrong and remembering the right driver name. I also didnt think about drive health checks that they lightly cover in the link.

https://linuxvox.com/blog/does-linux-support-ntfs/

[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Nice. Thanks :)

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