Noob Question Thread: Ask Any Questions About Linux!
I thought I'll make this thread for all of you out there who have questions but are afraid to ask them. This is your chance!
I'll try my best to answer any questions here, but I hope others in the community will contribute too!
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It depends on exactly how you plan to do things. The Linux kernel supports reading NTFS but not writing to it. I’m not sure exactly how full your drives are, but you might be able to consolidate some before installing Linux.
There are a couple utilities that let your mount an NTFS file system for read & write, but I wouldn’t trust them for important data.
Edit: This is outdated as of like 2021. Don’t listen to me
That's not true. Since kernel 5.15, Linux uses the new NTFS3 driver, which supports both read and write. And performance wise it's much better than the old ntfs-3g FUSE driver, and it's also arguably better in stability too, since at least kernel 6.2.
Personally though, I'd recommend being on 6.8+ if you're going to use NTFS seriously, or at the very least, 6.2 (as 6.2 introduces the mount options
windows_namesandnocase). @snooggums@midwest.socialToday I learned. Cunningham’s law strikes again I guess
As long as I can read from the second nvme drive I have enough total space to easily shuffle around.
My issue was that I couldn't fit everything onto just the SSDs at the same time.
Reading works great! If you need to mount the drive manually (IIRC Mint should do this for you) you’ll need to specify that it’s NTFS instead of it automatically detecting the file system but other than that it’s just plug and play