Transferring from NTFS to EXT4
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I've been thinking about switching to Debian on my main desktop which will be replacing Windows 10, but I have a question as to how I can transfer all my files over to the new OS, without them getting corrupted/lost.
I have:
240gb SSD (OS)
1Tb HDD (Random shit/games)
140Gb HDD (pulled out of a DirecTV DVR for shits and giggles)
4Tb HDD (1Tb is full)
and all of them have important stuff that I want to keep on them
All of it will fit on the 4TB, and the 4TB is in an external USB enclosure, so I should be able to just copy everything on to it and move it all over. Will the fact that all my drives being NTFS mess up trying to move them over to the EXT4 filesystem?
>>55582557
you dont' need to do anything anon, linux can read/write to ntfs drives just fine, and leaving it as ntfs ensures that when you take your portable drive with you, whatever computer you end up at will be able to read it.
>>55582589
This is true to an extent. Tools like wine and playonlinux have a hard time working with NTFS drives.
Opie, delete shit you can easily download again. Namely games. Delete everything that won't work, namely games.
Youre going to have to download them again for them to work for Linux anyway. That should free up some space. Put everything on the 4tb, format all to EXT4 and move it back on to the original media.
You really only need what you plan on storing Linux games to be EXT4. Media like video, pictures and text will work fine in NTFS
Make sure you do this or you are wasting a ton of space
https://odzangba.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/how-to-free-reserved-space-on-ext4-partitions/