Is it ok to swap over to Linux as long as the boot drive is reformatted as Ext4 but my storage drives are NTFS?

I have a Win 10 home theater pc that I use for plex and gaming. I want to swap over to Linux but my drives are formatted in NTFS. I have heard that while Linux can read and write NTFS, there is a possibility of corruption. I have a separate OS drive that I can reformat.

I really don’t have the spare cash right now to buy another HDD to pull over files before reformatting my current drives.

  • Lembot_0004@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Well, if those are just videos or other such data then you’re almost perfectly safe. Almost.

    If you describe what and how many disks you have, maybe we would be able to figure out some cheap walkaround?

    • RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Essentially I have two primary storage drives of 8 and 18 TB. The other storage drives are my old drives that I’m not worried about.

      • Lembot_0004@discuss.onlineEnglish
        21·
        2 days ago

        I see, I hoped you have just a bunch of smaller disks.

        Do you have another Win-machine where you can mount those disks if in need of maintenance (this need might never actually happen!)? If yes, then just move to Linux and everything will be ok.

        • RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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          2 days ago

          I have another pc that I could do that but I was looking at bringing it over to Linux too. I guess I could have that stay on Windows until I obtain another drive.