he means that wine does not play games well if they’re loaded off of an ntfs drive. which is true.
he could just backup his data, reformat to ext4 and restore his data though.
Sounds like it’s time to buy a good 6tb hdd for backups. Don’t be like me and put it off for years and suffer multiple drive failures and lose over a decade of hoarded data!
Because backing stuff up is a pain, especially if you want to back up your entire operating system and not just your home folder. It’s taken me a fair bit of work and a lot of know-how to set up Borg Backup to do that, including writing a custom script to safely fsck, mount, and unmount the backup drive.
True. I am working on some scripts so I can simply do a fresh install and then it’s all setup the way I like it. Some parts are easy but others a bit more complex.
But then I still need to make backups of the important stuff. I kinda use Google Drive for that though it’s not really a backup because all local changes are streamed to it. That will suck in the event of a ransomware attack.
Meanwhile, I’ve been backing stuff up like it’s my religion, and never had a drive failure to recover from.
The closest I’ve come is when I, earlier this year, trashed the file system on one of my machines. I restored the backup onto one of the two drives in the machine (they’re in a RAID1 configuration), but then I found a way to mount the old file system, so I still would have been able to recover without the backup.
The depths of my jealousy, knows no bounds. On 3 separate occasions in the last 8 years I’ve lost decades of data. I was able to recover most of the data at every failure, but cumulatively…almost enough to make me cry…
If I can fix my macbook air, I’m definitely loading linux
I want to switch on desktop but my 2nd drive is ntfs and I heard wine had trouble with that
There are NTFS drivers for Linux, it can read and write it fine, no wine needed :)
he means that wine does not play games well if they’re loaded off of an ntfs drive. which is true. he could just backup his data, reformat to ext4 and restore his data though.
Ah so it still is preferable to format secondary storage as ext4 instead of ntfs. Good to know.
Thanks, that’s exactly it!
But I have a huge amount of data on the drive(1tb) and no second drive to use for backup
Sounds like it’s time to buy a good 6tb hdd for backups. Don’t be like me and put it off for years and suffer multiple drive failures and lose over a decade of hoarded data!
Why are we like this? I too have a habit of losing hoarded data.
Idfk, but it’s an issue…
Because backing stuff up is a pain, especially if you want to back up your entire operating system and not just your home folder. It’s taken me a fair bit of work and a lot of know-how to set up Borg Backup to do that, including writing a custom script to safely fsck, mount, and unmount the backup drive.
True. I am working on some scripts so I can simply do a fresh install and then it’s all setup the way I like it. Some parts are easy but others a bit more complex. But then I still need to make backups of the important stuff. I kinda use Google Drive for that though it’s not really a backup because all local changes are streamed to it. That will suck in the event of a ransomware attack.
Meanwhile, I’ve been backing stuff up like it’s my religion, and never had a drive failure to recover from.
The closest I’ve come is when I, earlier this year, trashed the file system on one of my machines. I restored the backup onto one of the two drives in the machine (they’re in a RAID1 configuration), but then I found a way to mount the old file system, so I still would have been able to recover without the backup.
The depths of my jealousy, knows no bounds. On 3 separate occasions in the last 8 years I’ve lost decades of data. I was able to recover most of the data at every failure, but cumulatively…almost enough to make me cry…
I am running out of what little cash I had
Yeah, me too buddy…me too…
Why is the NTFS drive a problem? Can’t you reformat or at least partition it with a different file system?
Data
All my games are already on there
Whats wrong with your Mac? Can I help?
Doesn’t turn on
Gave it to repair shop for diagnostics since I don’t have a charger