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Probably a dumb question, but: do I need to do anything to my media drive when swapping from Windows? (lemmy.world)

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

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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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[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 9 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Word of warning on "Safe removal" of external harddrives: You really want to click "Eject" or "Safe removal" every time before unplugging. This is much more important than on Windows, due to the way Linux handles buffers and caching. A copy operation will be "finished" but still live in the write-cache and not securely written to disk.

NTFS is no problem (But as mentioned earlier in the thread the permission system is different). I usually format all my external devices with NTFS so they'll work on both Linux and Windows machines without any fuss.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I usually format my external drives to exFAT since it's fully supported R/W on all major operating systems, in the slim chance I have to use macOS.

Still, no need for the OP to reformat their drive; NTFS tends to work just fine.

[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 3 points 5 days ago

Oh good point, these are modern times, exFAT is a thing now.

I remember years ago having issues that Ubuntu could mount exFAT, so avoided it ever since. But that was many years ago, with an old kernel.

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