Use NTFS HDD for user_data again

Troubleshooting
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Hi All,
I recently upgraded from 8.25 where I used my external HDD with NTFS partition for dietpi_data. and want to use them again on the upgraded system, but when tried to set it back using dietpi-drive_manager I was told:

Filesystem type not supported:

/mnt/hdd has a filesystem type of ntfs, which is not supported.

The filesystem type must be ext2/3/4, F2FS, Btrfs, XFS or ZFS for native  
symlink and UNIX permissions compatibilities.

You may format the partition with a supported filesystem type and retry.

But Windows compatibility is crucial for me, so I need to keep it NTFS.

I found User Data Location on NFS Drive topic, but I’m more confused than before.

Also tried to check boot/dietpi.txt for some additional settings, but without sucess.

Is NTFS support really depreceted for this? Or is somehow possible to move at least some software folders to NTFS partition as before?

Thank you for help!

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I doubt that you used a NTFS partition for dietpi_userdata, because it does not support unix permissions and your system would be unable to function.
Maybe you had a second partition on the drive where the userdata was stored on?

You could create a samba share which you can access then from your windows machine.
There are also ext drivers for windows around, like https://github.com/bobranten/Ext4Fsd

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Believe me, the data are still on my NTFS partition.

I created symlinks to my NTFS partition for large file directories (not whole user_data) – it seems to be working.

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we removed NTFS as user data location a while back as it was causing issues and file system permission challenges.

keep an eye on permission issues and keep in mind you are on NTFS :wink:

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