Plug them into a non-gaming Linux distro like Fedora. It’ll read them no problem unless they’re Bitlocker encrypted. Then reformat them in Bazzite so you can use them for storage.
I daily Bazzite KDE and my NTFS drives are mounting all fine. The only annoyance is that it pops a warning that Bazzite doesn’t like non-Btrfs/ext4 drives every time I access them.
now I have 6TB of SSDs that I can’t figure out how to get rhe data off them without buying new hardware
Are these drives completely full? If not you can likely split the partition 50% NTFS where your data resides and 50% EXT4 so that Linux distro’s can access them properly.
Move the data from the NTFS partition over to your new partition gradually, expand the EXT4 partition and shrink the NTFS one as you go.
NTFS partitions do work on Linux however you’ll experience permission issues and such which is why it’s generally not recommended for day-to-day use, Bazzite is such a beginner-targeted distro that they don’t want the blame put on them if you do something wrong and lose data.
I spent like 3 days shuffling stuff off an NTFS partition and into a btrfs one last week. It’s doable but takes a while especially if you don’t have much space to put things temporarily.
Should probably mention I did it on cachy for the most part, had to use the mount ntfs-3g command a bit
Im loving Bazzite.
Except for the whole “now I have 6TB of SSDs that I can’t figure out how to get rhe data off them without buying new hardware”
Sorry, why do you need new hardware? Bazzite doesn’t detect them?
They’re NTFS. Bazzite didnt like it when I tried to access them.
Plug them into a non-gaming Linux distro like Fedora. It’ll read them no problem unless they’re Bitlocker encrypted. Then reformat them in Bazzite so you can use them for storage.
Bazzite is Fedora, no?
I daily Bazzite KDE and my NTFS drives are mounting all fine. The only annoyance is that it pops a warning that Bazzite doesn’t like non-Btrfs/ext4 drives every time I access them.
It is, but I suspect they’re trying to mount the NTFS from Steam Big Picture mode. Also, Bazzite is immutable, so there may be something funky there.
No i was in desktop. They just didnt get mounted automatically like i expected (in hindsight, idk wtf i was expecting).
Are you sure you mounted the drives correctly?
I’m never sure of anything ever.
Are these drives completely full? If not you can likely split the partition 50% NTFS where your data resides and 50% EXT4 so that Linux distro’s can access them properly.
Move the data from the NTFS partition over to your new partition gradually, expand the EXT4 partition and shrink the NTFS one as you go.
NTFS partitions do work on Linux however you’ll experience permission issues and such which is why it’s generally not recommended for day-to-day use, Bazzite is such a beginner-targeted distro that they don’t want the blame put on them if you do something wrong and lose data.
They’re full, but the stuff i want isn’t large. I think. Honestly I can’t remember if anything I want is really on the drives.
I spent like 3 days shuffling stuff off an NTFS partition and into a btrfs one last week. It’s doable but takes a while especially if you don’t have much space to put things temporarily. Should probably mention I did it on cachy for the most part, had to use the mount ntfs-3g command a bit
Do you mean reading the data or deleting the data?
Reading. Then deleting.
Ah okay, is it because of Bitlocker?
You know, I dont think so. I dont remember enabling it