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Will there be any problem if I copy contents from an NTFS hard disk to an exFAT hard disk? I will take files from Windows 7 on an NTFS external HDD and copy them on a Fedora machine.

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You shouldn't have any issues. You may need to install a NTFS driver in Fedora. To do this run the following commands: To become root:

 su -

To install ntfs-3g:

yum install ntfs-3g

After ntfs-3g is installed you should be able to read/write to the NTFS external hard drive. More info on ntfs-3g can be found here

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There will be no problem except that you'll lose all the file permissions (and encrypted files, if any)

Another possible problem if you have tons of small files: your files will consume more space on disk because ExFAT uses 64KB cluster by default

Please explain wasted space on an exFAT formatted external hard drive

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