Grsync: Can I set the Destination for backup on an NTFS drive
Here's my idea...
On my G drive GPT/NTFS as I write this. I have a 1.8TB partition with only 9%/170GB of which is being used. I was thinking I could shrink that partition down from it's current size down to 340GB. Which would leave me with 1.5XTB I could format in ext4 (for example, or whatever you think is best;) and put my Linux backups on the "H" partition; (where I would have a ton of room for that purpose...) Thanks in advance, Pen guin |
Yes you can do this. However I wonder what you mean by G partition and H partition. These are Windows naming conventions. If this disk is in a Windows computer, I am not sure whether you can access the H partition formatted with ext4.
Linux can also write to an NTFS filesystem, by the way. |
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I am also confused by the apparent Windows terminology in something that seems to be about Linux. |
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To correctly backup, you could do that to a .tar archive ON that partition, so that everything "linux-like" is stored within the tar file. |
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I've been using Windows since Windows 95 came out; so, it was a slip of the tongue due to conditioning. I have a 4TB EXT HD. Currently divided into two Windows partitions. F, for my Win10 backups, and G, for Data, created under a Windows system. Before I shrink G: from its current size of some 1.8 TB to 340 GB, would it be OK to have one partition G: NTFS, and a newly created partition say ext4? The theory being, I could tell Grsync to place my backups on the ext4 partition...(1.5x TB) Thanks in advance, Pen guin |
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Just to expand on my earlier post:
In addition to the F: and G: drives, (F: for my Acronis Win 10 "C" drive, and G: (Local Data) partition. And all of those backups go on F:. LinuxMint is on /dev/nvme0n1p2 formatted as ext4... |
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Seriously, the Windows nomenclature is confusing because it does not differentiate between physical drives and partitions. Try to avoid using it when explaining Linux things on a Linux forum. |
Thanks for bringing that to my attention...
Apologies for the confusion. |
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