08-01-2017, 01:00 PM
I did some research by google. I found some strange articles. There was one guy that claimed that ntfs was better than ext4. He also said that ext4 lost data. Then I found some people saying everything is fine. I just think not everyone is doing what I do on a regular basis. Because if I think a drive is giving me problems I run tests on it. The reason why I feel that ext4 external hard drives is the answer to my problem is because at least with ext4 I know that one can check it in linux. I don't understand why but every time I did research I couldn't find anything in linux that would check a ntfs file system. Also several months ago I tried to use gparted to check a fat32 file system on a flash drive. It messed up the file system. I reported everything to the gparted forums, and the developer is aware of the issue. He gave me method, that I don't understand how to do, that can keep the issue from happening. He also added that gparted is fixed but the fix never made it into the ubuntu repositories. He wanted me to report it upstream. I did that, but I have no idea if they solved the bug or not. I don't have time to just test and test things...