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lobsta · 2016-05-02, 04:14

Long time windows user who is switching to Ubuntu linux. Right now I have a win7 box running smb on a 2tb NTFS drive. At this time i'm awaiting a new 2tb nas drive so i can format to ext3 and copy files over from the ntfs drive. My question is could I run the ntfs drive for a few weeks in ubuntu while I wait for the new drive or would there be issues with writing and reading files?

bdoe · 2016-05-02, 05:20

Ubuntu reads NTFS drives out of the box, so I don't see any problems with this.

**J876** · 2016-05-02, 08:14

(2016-05-02, 04:14)lobsta Wrote: Long time windows user who is switching to Ubuntu linux. Right now I have a win7 box running smb on a 2tb NTFS drive. At this time i'm awaiting a new 2tb nas drive so i can format to ext3 and copy files over from the ntfs drive. My question is could I run the ntfs drive for a few weeks in ubuntu while I wait for the new drive or would there be issues with writing and reading files?

Format the Ubuntu drive to ext4. It supersedes ext3.

lobsta · 2016-05-02, 22:37

Thanks, really want to get this changeover done before I get busy at work again. If I had somewhere to backup the data from the ntfs drive I would switch the drive over now. lol

lobsta · 2016-05-02, 22:39

(2016-05-02, 08:14)J876 Wrote:
(2016-05-02, 04:14)lobsta Wrote: Long time windows user who is switching to Ubuntu linux. Right now I have a win7 box running smb on a 2tb NTFS drive. At this time i'm awaiting a new 2tb nas drive so i can format to ext3 and copy files over from the ntfs drive. My question is could I run the ntfs drive for a few weeks in ubuntu while I wait for the new drive or would there be issues with writing and reading files?

Format the Ubuntu drive to ext4. It supersedes ext3.

Yeah I may just go with ext4 after some reading on the difference.