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.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    and on linux, the ‘sync’ command will manually flush the buffers if you’re worried about buffered data not being written to the drive.