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.
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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…
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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?)
- 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.
I would not use NTFS.
Do the reverse. Use ZFS, Ext4, or Btrfs. Those are native Linux file systems.
Then you share the Linux folder with Windows over SMB, which is a Windows file sharing protocol that both Linux and Windows understand well. Voila, copy and paste between both machines without worrying about corruption.