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?

Edit: I don’t have time to reply to everyone but thanks for the information and discussion. I’m looking to rearrange some things on my drives to free up one drive entirely and then perhaps give Fedora Linux another spin on a secondary drive along with Windows on another. If all goes well, maybe Windows will get the boot or um never booted again.

  • @aksdb
    9•10 months ago

    I switched to ‘ntfs3g’ or rather, it’s ‘ntfs3’ variant (same code, but compiled into the kernel instead of running outside via ‘fuse’)

    They are not the same code. They are completely independent code bases by different devs. ntfs-3g is developed by tuxera, ntfs3 by Paragon. The latter also maintain a proprietary ntfs driver for a long time.

    In my experience ntfs3 is a little faster, but also more unstable. ntfs-3g gave me zero corruptions in years, ntfs3 on the other hand needs a chkdsk run every few days.

    • @cygon
      3•10 months ago

      Oh my, thank you very much for pointing that out!

      I might have to give it another chance, then, perhaps I’ll shift my games partition back to NTFS once I can free up enough space.