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Probably a dumb question, but: do I need to do anything to my media drive when swapping from Windows? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I have a small external backup drive where I dump my phone camera captures and archive YouTube channels - nothing special; a few terabytes, mostly mp4s.

Is there anything I need to do before/after I swap?

If it matters, the drive is 9TB, formatted as NTFS, and connected via USB 3.0.

I also have 4 internal drives, but I'm not so much worried about them, as I plan on just formatting everything but the external.

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[–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

My external drive is NTFS. It might randomly cock up occasionally but there are guides online on how to fix drive errors, usually just using the native disk management tool. Or just plug in to a windows computer to fix errors. Never an issue, and you might want to keep it NTFS should you need to plug into a windows computer.

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