Hey everyone! I recently switched both of my laptops to Arch Linux with Wayland, and I’m planning to set up my desktop next. I’m currently partitioning my drives, with /boot and /root on one NVMe, and I want to place /home on a second NVMe drive. In total, I have four drives: two NVMe and two SATA SSDs in my desktop. My question is, can I just leave the two SATA SSDs as is for storage? They’re formatted in NTFS, but I plan to convert them to ext4 after transferring all my music, pictures, and documents off them. Am I going to run into any issues with Linux when converting these drives later? Steam has really changed my game on Linux, so I’m motivated to get rid of Windows altogether, even if the setup process can be a bit of a hassle!
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When I switched over, I left my Windows NVMe drive untouched for about six months. I periodically pulled off any files I thought I might need, and after three months without touching it, I finally went ahead and reformatted it to ext4. I mounted it under a separate folder for Steam and whatever else I needed, but definitely back up everything first!
You should be fine converting the drives to ext4 after getting your files off. Just be sure to check that the partitions are unmounted before you start with the conversion. It sounds like you’re on the right track!
Good idea about the backup! I wouldn’t want to lose any important files during the switch. Just take your time with the conversion process.