NTFS

If you really want to use ntfs (i see the advantages for exchanging to windows machines) i would recommend usinggparted or simply put it into a windows machine.

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David

Your command is not correct. Why do you want to create a NTFS filesystem on OMV? I would recommend you use ext4. I would only mount NTFS drives if I were transferring data from an NTFS drive.

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I would recommend you use ext4. I would only mount NTFS drives if I were transferring data from an NTFS drive.

Why? What are the advantages?

The advantages are that it should be faster (except that ntfs-3g isn't slow anymore) and its a native linux filesystem. I would also throw XFS into the discussion, but meanings differ very hard.

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David

NTFS is a filesystem for Windows operating systems. EXT4 or XFS are native to linux and will work better in many aspects such file and folder permissions, ownership, etc.... The ability to mount a NTFS, or format, is done for cross platform compatibility but not the best filesystem for a linux distribution, or omv.

Thank you for your both explanations.

Is speed an issue if the box is for LAN (1GBit) transfers only?

I used a truecrypt encrypted ntfs volume (as a linux share) some time ago, and i can tell that I had no speed issues.

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David

When, then go for ext4.

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David