Is it ok to swap over to Linux as long as the boot drive is reformatted as Ext4 but my storage drives are NTFS?
I have a Win 10 home theater pc that I use for plex and gaming. I want to swap over to Linux but my drives are formatted in NTFS. I have heard that while Linux can read and write NTFS, there is a possibility of corruption. I have a separate OS drive that I can reformat.
I really don’t have the spare cash right now to buy another HDD to pull over files before reformatting my current drives.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.14-rc6/filesystems/ntfs3.html
Note if you are sharing it with windows MS could update or change something that could corrupt the data. Always have backups.
I would be running Linux only with Windows completely removed.