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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 2 weeks ago by OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 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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[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

So it's gonna be ntfs so it's a matter of handling the permissions in fstab. Because it's not gonna link your user ids from the NTFS files and map them automatically to your UNIX users. So there are options in fstab for that. Easy to look up. For instance maybe your user is 'user' so you're gonna tell fstab to assign everything in a ntfs to partition to 'user'. Except maybe you have media files served by plex media server running under user 'plexmediaserver'. This kind of things.

[–] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is the most technical reply I've read thus far, and I appreciate the information. This seems like something I would've been pulling my hair out over relatively soon.