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.

  • RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    2 days ago

    They’re not, and I can get one drive for sure formatted with transferring. I do get concerned with large scale transferring and worrying that the drive will die lol