refromating a NTFS drive( is this going to work?)

[DimGR]

i currently have 2 drives on this computer.
a 80gb with linux and a 120gb ( ntfs) with 90gb of movies and mp3s . Being a ntfs file system i can not edit it so i was thinking of copying all my files to my 80gb ( 10gb will have to be lost but its ok:) ) and then format the empty drive to a linux system.
Should i format it as fat , fat16, fat32 or ext3?
when all its done i will transfer all the movies and songs back to the 120gb drive:)

[bosox79]

do you want to make the 80GB drive a linux only drive and then keep your movies & music on the 120GB drive?:confused:

[DimGR]

Originally posted by bosox79
do you want to make the 80GB drive a linux only drive and then keep your movies & music on the 120GB drive?:confused:


thats how my system is right now
80gb has linux
120gb has movies and songs.

i want to transfer most of the 120gb files to my 80gb for now and format the 120gb to a linux compatible system and then transfer them back to the 120gb drive

[bosox79]

Originally posted by DimGR
thats how my system is right now
80gb has linux
120gb has movies and songs.

i want to transfer most of the 120gb files to my 80gb for now and format the 120gb to a linux compatible system and then transfer them back to the 120gb drive

forgive me if I am being dense, but just to see if we are on the say page you want to transfer your files to the 80GB drive then reformat the 120 and make that your linux HD? then store your files on the linux HD and say make the 80 GB a windows drive? I would recomend ext3 for the Linux drive it is a good all around filesystem & fat32 for your windows drive so you can transfer files between both OS:cool:

[DimGR]

Originally posted by bosox79
forgive me if I am being dense, but just to see if we are on the say page you want to transfer your files to the 80GB drive then reformat the 120 and make that your linux HD? then store your files on the linux HD and say make the 80 GB a windows drive? I would recomend ext3 for the Linux drive it is a good all around filesystem & fat32 for your windows drive so you can transfer files between both OS:cool:


i do not have windows . ONly one OS :) I used to have windows that is why the 120gb is ntfs. What i want to do is to be able to write to my 120gb drive. Right now i can not so i was thinking of formating it to fat32. I do not want to lose all the movies and songs though thats why i said i was going to transfer most of them to my linux drive ( 80gb) so i can format the other drive and then transfer them back to the 120gb

[The Whizzard]

Do a G4L (http://www.google.com/linux) search for "captive ntfs". I believe it's a patch or module for the kernel which has stable writing to NTFS.

[bosox79]

DimGR,

oh ok I get it now:D :o

[bwkaz]

If you use vfat, you cannot have any individual files bigger than 2 gigs on that partition (vfat/FAT32 does not support it).

I would use ext3 (or some other Linux native FS), myself.

[bosox79]

If you use vfat, you cannot have any individual files bigger than 2 gigs on that partition (vfat/FAT32 does not support it). <smacks forhead> duh:o :)

Thanks
bwkaz
:cool:

[blackhawk714]

Is there any reason people wouldn't pick reiserfs for such a large drive. It is proven that it scales better than ext3 and I find that it is faster and more stable. Give that a try man. :D

[bwkaz]

Uh oh... now we get into benchmarks.

Suffice it to say, you can make any benchmark test say anything you want. It doesn't necessarily "prove" anything, though. ;)