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.

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Corruption is unlikely, but permissions might be a problem.

    How much free space do you have? You might be able to shrink the NTFS and create another (I usually use xfs for data partitions), copy the data, then delete NTFS and expand xfs to full size.