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.
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.
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.
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.