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.

  • RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Hmm ya, that’s definitely a concern in my location. Power goes out several times a year here, even if it’s just momentarily long enough to power off the PC. I should have a UPS but never had the spare cash to throw at that.

    • Bob Smith@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      1 day ago

      To be fair, power loss is a concern for any setup. More recent copy-on-write filesystems are supposed to be a bit more resilient…but I also worry about the lack of a long-term reliability track record for newer filesystems like BTRFS. The long term solution, like more than one other poster has indicated, is having multiple backups.