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[–] RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

This is what my searching has panned out to be. If I completely removed Windows from my system and do not run any programs from the NTFS drives, does my risk go down?

Issue is that I have around 30 TB of data and so getting a drive to shuffle data while reformatting instantly puts me in the $250+ range which isn’t really possible right now.

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[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Are the data drives completely full? If not, you could potentially shrink the partition using something like GParted, then create a new ext4 or whatever file system you want with the newly unallocated space. Then, move some data from the ntfs partition to the new ext4 partition. Once the new partition is full, shrink the ntfs one, expand the ext4 one, and copy over more data. It'll probably be tedious, but it should be doable and save you from having to buy a new drive.

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[–] RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 1 point 1 year 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

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[+] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

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[–] RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[+] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

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[–] RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 1 point 1 year ago

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.