slazer2au comments on Two by two, onto the usb you go.

Two by two, onto the usb you go. (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by irelephant@programming.dev to c/iiiiiiitttttttttttt@programming.dev

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A picture of Noahs Ark. It has the caption "How I feel Gathering all my files before reinstalling windows"

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

But then I have to spend the next week moving file between drives to I can format them away from NTFS.

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Linux can read and write NTFS just fine. I've been using that functionality for years.

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[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unless they’re the ones that store your Steam library.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

And that is my use case.

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[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ditto.

That okay, I haven’t used Windows at home in years.

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[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Here’s a tool that does an in-place conversion to btrfs (and keeps an image of the original partition saved after it’s done)

https://github.com/maharmstone/ntfs2btrfs

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nice mate, saving that one for later.

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