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I'm not the OP, but drat, I didn't know that bit about the NTFS drive not working nice... that was gonna be my plan for my games so I wouldn't have to re-download hundreds of gigabytes of games (Battlefield 1, Borderlands, TF2, Genshin, etc...)
Yeah it's a real pain point. I copied my games to an external drive, reformatted the drive, then put them back and everything worked smoothly then. On the bright side if you can't do this, Steam makes moving games to your Linux drive pretty easy.
What distro?
I'm on Nobara currently, but the NTFS thing is an issue with Linux in general.
I'm gonna have to try this when I switch then, thanks!
Oh ok, cool!
I run this setup right now and it works very well. The key is to disable fast boot in Windows (preferrably before even installing Linux), otherwise it won't shut down all the way and leave the drive in a dirty state. The ntfs-3g driver will still read and write to it, but games won't work.
Does disabling fast boot make it so when you tell the computer to shutdown it actually shuts down? I found out that shutdown doesn't really shutdown after checking Task Manager and seeing the uptime
Yes, that's what it does.
Oh nice, that's always irritated me so much. I'm gonna work on disabling that then, thanks!
NTFS will work, I used it for a few years without even realizing. I eventually switched to EXT4 for my games drive from an old Windows install when I realized ntfs-3g was using a decent amount of CPU and had a small impact on performance.
My wife switched to Linux recently and we kept her large data hdd as it was (i.e. ntfs) but within a week she discovered several new files had been corrupted, and could neither be opened or deleted. Seemed to be happening when she was using drag and drop in Thunar, while moving files using copy paste worked better. Didn't want to take more risks so we backed everything up and reformatted to ext4.
Oh ok, that's interesting that there would be a performance impact! But that's cool that it does work. I'm honestly more worried now about getting Nvidia to work since that's what my pc has since I'm using sway, but I guess I'll worry about that when the time comes. Thanks!
Does your EXT4 games drive play nice when trying to run the games in Windows?
I'd like to dual boot but the NTFS / EXT compatibility issue remains a concern for me since I would rather not have to redownload everything only to have it not work on one of the OSes.
I don’t boot into Windows often enough so I just reformatted the drive to ext4. When I did use both though NTFS was perfectly usable for both.