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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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[–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

I usually format my external drives to exFAT since it's fully supported R/W on all major operating systems, in the slim chance I have to use macOS.

Still, no need for the OP to reformat their drive; NTFS tends to work just fine.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Oh good point, these are modern times, exFAT is a thing now.

    I remember years ago having issues that Ubuntu could mount exFAT, so avoided it ever since. But that was many years ago, with an old kernel.

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