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Noax wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 5:33 pm
So I reasearched a bit more and found out with rsync its possible to copy. But that should be slow and I have TB of data soo not very good... and I have red tons of forums with "format from ntfs to ext4 without data loss" many of them listed an software that you should buy to simply format it to ext4
One last 2 forums in ubuntu (yes MX is debian based) said thats as easy as to mount the ntfs and copy all over to ext4.
You're falling into analysis paralysis and getting distracted by reading about rsync and partition managers.
Your external hard drive is just like any other storage device. And NTFS is just like any other file system. Yes, there are differences and they may be important later, but for now just think about NTFS as a way to store files on a disk. Another way to store files on a disk is FAT32. Windows understands both.
Can you copy files from a FAT32 external hard drive to a Windows machine running NTFS? Yes. There's no hand-wringing involved. You have a disk with files on it. You have another disk with files on it. You copy the files from one disk to the other. You don't have to get fancy with it.
OK. Why does that work? It works because your machine understands how to read and write files on an NTFS volume, and on a FAT32 volume. If you had an NTFS disk and an QMZPJFS disk it would be another story, but that's not the case here.
Copying data between A and B is purely a matter of asking if the machine understands how to read and write A and B.
You know MX Linux understands ext4. And you know MX Linux understands NTFS. Therefore, you can stop doing frivolous research on the matter and move on.
Thats just what I needed. As stupid as it sounds but I have an tendency to hang too long on many such things.
It should be so as you said. With the help of ntfs-3g linux is able to understand both filesystems so I should stop whining and move on.
That should be the reason why I dont found an answer that pleased me... because its that simple and I hung myself up with it.
As long as I can copy my data over with the normal (20-40 mb´s) it should be fine.
Next monday I am finally home and can begin with the "Live MX Linux" test from the stick.
Then I will also post the Quick System Info and again ask about any compatibility issues or other kinds of things that I should be aware of.
Thank you all again for your answers.
I will now go to sleep (finally).
So. I installed it and it seems like it runs well atm.
Only some errors at startup with words like "logo" failed to load and so on came up. These are normal atm, or?
And some days in the future I want to switch to linux for my secondary pc and the laptop from my father too. These will need drivers for the EPSON printers XP-412 and SX130.
These 2 drivers (+ scanner) are available as an .deb package from the EPSON site. So I think I will be alright in that regard too?
I already fiddled with the system and I even can start some old windows only games without too much trouble. Only "Bottles" didnt work for me but Steam (proton) and Litrus+Wine worked just fine for some games.
That I can play old Windows games on this OS seems wonderful to me :)
Please post your QSI. ( MX Menu, Quick System Info, Copy for Forum, Paste here )
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if some windows apps dont run under linux (which is expected) just install VMware workstation on linux and run windows in an VM as guest. that way you can fool around as much as you want and never break or mess up your linux host system. VMware workstation is free and highly recommended :-)
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Noax wrote: Mon Mar 31, 2025 8:10 pm
So. I installed it and it seems like it runs well atm.
Only some errors at startup with words like "logo" failed to load and so on came up. These are normal atm, or?
And some days in the future I want to switch to linux for my secondary pc and the laptop from my father too. These will need drivers for the EPSON printers XP-412 and SX130.
These 2 drivers (+ scanner) are available as an .deb package from the EPSON site. So I think I will be alright in that regard too?
I already fiddled with the system and I even can start some old windows only games without too much trouble. Only "Bottles" didnt work for me but Steam (proton) and Litrus+Wine worked just fine for some games.
That I can play old Windows games on this OS seems wonderful to me :)
Thank you in advance for your answers.
I run a Z790 AERO and it runs WAY better on a Liquorix 6.12.x kernel. When you get all settled in, I would strongly suggest trying it out. Also, check the AHS repo in MX Repo Manager and then do an update and upgrade - there are a few later drivers that are good to have on board.
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So in order to do an kernel and AHS upgrade I have to klick through the following 2 installations right?
I want to ask so that I hopefully not break my system (again... last night I fiddled so much that my games wasnt working anymore so I reset the system...):
Can I do it in any order?
How do I "activate the AHS updates for automatic updates"?
In the following the picture:
EDIT: And last question: Do I have to take all my tinker steps again for some of my games or will the system settle itself with an kernel upgrade and not break my steam and lutris+wine configurations? When yes is it not better to simply start from an scratch OS installation? I have more than an handfull of packages installed to get wine+lutris atleast semi working (roughly 70% or so from my games that I tried worked)
So, first off ... I would suggest that you get timeshift setup and use it before any / all upgrades. I personally dont use the timeshift scheduler, but I have a cron job that runs timeshift every night - and then I run timeshift before ANY upgrades / tweaks to my system. ( imo ... this is the only method to guarantee you can easily rollback .)
Timeshift does NOT do your user/.config area, so you should be backing that up before any tweaking as well ;-/
Yes, I personally would do the updates as follows:
a) Timeshift your system
b) turn on the ahs repo in MX Repo manager and then apt update and apt upgrade
c) Once your all up todate, then I would add a liquorix kernel, reboot and verify you are now running that liquorix kernel. (you can always roll that back too, just boot back to your regular kernel in grub and then MX cleanup to remove the latest kernel - also... I always have at least the previous kernel still loaded and ready on the machine, just in case.)
d)once your back up and working well.. THEN you should see how the games work etc. Most likely, you will probably have to do the tinkering steps again.
And again, imo ... you should add timeshift steps along the way after the above b) c) and during d) steps. Verify your machine appears to be working well.. and then to do a timeshift just in case.
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Good I think I will try that out but before I tinker again (that I will see when I have the new kernel and updates/upgrades) I think I will reinstall this OS completely new and that the kernel upgrade will then be my first step.
I want an clean system that will work from now until 2028 and I dont think thats "easily doable" for and beginner like myself with Kernel Updates in between etc.?. Hopefully by then I have the aptitude to know how to limit the work on an OS upgrade...
Another qeustion: When I break my Wine+Lutris configuration is it possible to remove every last inch of wine+lutris packages and dependencies before I reinstall my OS everytime that happens?^^
EDIT: I think an Timeshift before the tinkering starts would be good in this case?
EDIT 2: Another qeustion: you answered with "b) turn on the ahs repo in MX Repo manager and then apt update and apt upgrade" its the button on the image with ahs, or? just to be sure
