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HDDs not showing up after migrating from windows (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by Wammityblam@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.world
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After installing Bazzite this morning, everything is working great except that my hard drives (2x 4 TB) are not showing up.

I previously used them on Windows for my media and plex server (which I still have dual booted while I get my bearings on Linux), but they’re not showing in Linux.

Any ideas?

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[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It is correct and is explicitly detailed here:

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NTFS and exFAT/FAT32 ARE NOT SUPPORTED. BOTH FILESYSTEMS CAN AND WILL LEAD TO DATA CORRUPTION UNDER LINUX. DO NOT USE THEM!
winBTRFS UNDER WINDOWS STILL HAS BUGS AND IS ALSO NOT A SOLUTION.

THERE IS CURRENTLY NO RELIABLE CROSS-PLATFORM FILESYSTEM THAT CAN BE SHARED WITH WINDOWS AND LINUX.

The issues detailed in the article you linked to explicitly refer to issues with Proton and Steam, which require characters that are illegal in the NTFS specification and symbolic links, which the spec does not support.

I dont see that mentioned anywhere in the article. Again its referring to gaming because there are probably a million PC gamers to every person hosting a media library, but it still uses all the same hardware in a similar fashion. This being isolated solely to game files makes little sense as an OS and filesystem see data as "bits" and "bytes" not "games," "movies," "pictures," and "programs" outside of file extensions which tell it which programs to use to interact with said data and how that data will be arranged within said file.

This is like claiming you can read Mandarin but only when certain topics are being discussed and not others even when the same words are being used.