Do I need to format the disk when changing the server from Windows 2008 to Linux?

Question

We have a server with Windows 2008, the system disk is a 120G SSD, and the data disk is a RAID made of three 2T hard drives.
Now I want to replace the Windows system with a Linux system, what should I do with the data disk?
Do you want to format it to linux? Or should I just reinstall the system and then mount the data disk under Linux?

Answer 1

No need to format, the ntfs-3g command can mount the NTFS formatted disk, and then it can be read and written normally.

1: Download ntfs-3g source code: http://download.csdn.net/deta...

2: The installation steps are as follows

# tar xvf ntfs-3g.tar.gz
# cd ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2011.4.12/
# ./configure
# make
# make install

3: How to use (mount Windows C drive):

$ sudo ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/ //Note: sda1 is my C drive

After use, exit the /mnt/ directory and uninstall

$ sudo umount /mnt/

Answer 2

The data disk should not need to be formatted, Linux can basically support Windows file systems such as NTFS