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.

  • Mensh123@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Linux supports NTFS, but NTFS doesn’t support Linux’s permission system. This is fine as long as you don’t need Linux to recognize a file as executable while it’s on there.