NTFS Drives

cryptopher · 3. Dezember 2019

Good evening all,

Hope you all are well. I have a couple of drives on my original windows pc which served as my media server. All the usb disks are full and formatted as NTFS.
I'm rebuilding a new OMV system and would like to use these disks and the media on them. My question is could I leave these file systems as is in order to access the media on my network? Does OMV read NTFS slower then any of the other file systems?

Your suggestions and input is greatly appreciated.

Regards

cabrio_leo · 3. Dezember 2019

It is possible to mount a NTFS drive. But you shouldn´t use a NTFS formatted disk as a OMV data drive.

See this and subsequent posts: OMV NTFS oder EXT4
Or this: Format Hard Drive for NTFS in OpenMediaVault

cryptopher · 3. Dezember 2019

Could I use the ntfs drives to read the data off of it? I have other disks that I will be placing fresh data on and they formatted as btrfs.

Adoby · 3. Dezember 2019

Yes. OMV allows you to mount NTFS drives. That means that you can copy files to/from NTFS drives directly from/to shared folders in OMV. That may be much faster than copying over the network.

I would recommend you to use the plugin resetperms after copying files into shared folders directly. If you copy over the network that is not needed.

Using NTFS drives for shared folders may cause problems and low performance.

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