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I screwed up when I made my home server, just curious if there's a way out of the corner I've backed myself in (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I work away from home for weeks at a time, and I hurriedly set up my server on my last day at home last month

I got a free PC, and a 10tb HDD. Lenovo uses a stupid special cable to run sata drives off the motherboard, I didn't know there were two sizes, bought the wrong size and said fuck it so I installed windows on the same drive and same partition I now have 4 tb worth of media

Now I want to move to Linux as my server OS, I got another PC that actually has the ability to run multiple HDDs

Can I access the files on this drive from another OS? Is there a way to keep these files without transferring it all to another HDD?

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes if you have a big HDD for speed try to get bcachefs as Filesystem. It is somewhat complex but if you install a small 250GB or so SSD you could speed up your read/write time a lot.

Not sure what you mean with those partitions, do you have a 6TB windows partition?? Then just delete that. And 4TB of also NTFS files?

I dont know if you can convert filesystems while leaving the files there, interesting question. But probably not

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No, I'm saying I have a windows install that I then used to download 4tb worth of files, my original goal was to mount a second drive to use as the file source, but I've had issues in the past trying to access files from a hard drive with a windows install on it

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So, you have 6TB empty space?

You should put in a usb flash drive, create some good partition on that 6TB and copy the files from the windows partition over there. Then delete the NTFS partition and increase the bcachefs partition.

But warning, I have not used bcachefs. Just dont use ext4, prefer btrfs maybe

[–] Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah okay thank you

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

So yeah use any liveUSB for example Fedora KDE and create the bcachefs partition and copy the files. Good luck!