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annoyedcamel Feb 16, 2024

Current state of NTFS compatibility?

Current state of NTFS compatibility? - Reddthat

Hi all. I’ve used Linux off and on for almost two decades now but most recently in a VM. I’m thinking I might make the permanent switch sometime before Windows 10 EOL. My concern is that I have over 12TB of data spanned across many drives, all in the NTFS file system. How is NTFS compatibility nowadays? For a time, I remember it being recommended to mount NTFS as read only. It seems infeasible to convert my current data to a Linux filesystem. Thoughts?

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MrHandyMan

I have one SSD which I use as a data drive between both Linux and Windows. I used to run Steam games from it, but there were some small problems sometimes, so nowadays I just use it as a storage.

Generally it works just fine, but sometimes Windows does something weird with it especially when running updates, so that Linux can’t mount it. During those times I just have to boot to Windows desktop and then come back to Linux and it usually mounts again. If you totally get rid of Windows, I don’t think this will happen to you though.

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Chewy Feb 17, 2024

Windows doesn’t shutdown completely anymore, instead it’s more similar to hibernate by default. For ntfs-3g (userspace/fuse ntfs driver) there’s the remove_hiberfile option, which deletes the file and might delete some temporary data. I’ve personally never lost unsaved data because of this, but I closed apps before rebooting anyway. It’s not recommend though and might not be available for the ntfs kernel driver.

[1] askubuntu.com/…/unable-to-mount-windows-ntfs-file…

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