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.

  • PlatonicGin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 hours ago

    I second btrfs. Even when I was sharing with Windows I used their btrfs driver and it worked fine there too, but I had to occasionally make my user the owner again booting back into cachy, so now I just dont share drives and relegated Windows to a small 120gb SSD for emergency use only.