NTFS and HFS+

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Right guys, here’s an interesting one!

I have a DroboPro that was originally formatted as NTFS and being used with a PC server. I’ve moved it across to an Xserve running the latest software and installed Paragon NTFS so I can read/write to the volume. All good so far.

I have noticed that when I try to add a new volume, it wants to add it as HFS+. No problems here as I’d like to use the native file system anyhow.

Here’s the question. If I create an HFS+ volume alongside the NTFS partition, could I theoretically copy the files and folders across and then eventually delete the NTFS partition?

Thanks all!

Andy

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cant see any reason why that would not work

when i wanted to “resize” a partition on my drobopro i created a new 16tb volume - copied everything across from the old 8tb volume and then deleted the old volume

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Cheers, I’m gonna make sure that I’ve got a backup first and then give it a go.

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BTW, this worked an absolute treat!

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great, thanks for letting us know!

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paraprod, Good to hear it worked for you, on your DroboPro.
Out of interest, how much data did you move from NTFS volume to HFS+ volume and about how long did it take?

Thanks

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Hi,

Total data was around 8TB on an 11TB volume. I had to do it in 1.5 chunks and it took me around a week to complete.

Andy

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Thanks for the info.