Hi, I’ve been running a Ubuntu on Mac Mini homelab for past couple of weeks (Jellyfin, Transmission, SMB), and I keep hitting NTFS issues - some of which were my own fault, but I’m now seeking advice for the future.

  1. I wanted to unmount the drive. Drive was busy (seems it is as long as smbd is running). So I do umount -f, expecting it will kill the process and unmount similar to Unlocker app - it corrupted the entire drive. Didn’t work on Windows or Linux, vcn error… After a few days of painful recovery, I set it all back up…

  2. Went to mv a file to a subfolder, got impatient, cancelled it. Tried to remove the partial file - IO error! Couldn’t remove it, not after reboot, not as root, no way. And I couldn’t access the entire folder because of that one file.

To fix, I had to plug in the drive to the Windows machine, saw the file for a sec, then file disappeared itself (some self-repair system?)

  1. sometimes the drive doesn’t appear at all, takes a few repluggings to get it working? On Windows machine it works okay.

Is there any other FS you could recommend? (needs to be Windows compatible as well)

Thank you.

  • DimestoreProstitute@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Not so much that NTFS is sensitive, rather it isn’t prepared for a lot of corner cases it wasn’t designed for. I’m curious of the need to share an NTFS volume via Samba that’s also used with Windows… permissions alone could go to hell without careful thought about ACLs. If you really need to share a volume that’s intended to be mounted in both Windows and Linux via Samba I’d go EXFAT if I didn’t have an alternative to the whole situation.