Replace NTFS, and use exFAT (if Windows access is needed) or ext4 instead. Permanent repair is bad.
Permanent repair is bad.
Sorry I don't understand.
Sorry I don't understand.
I think the mentioned file systems are more resistant against file corruption.
Do you always use a proper shutdown for power-off?
Would exFAT allow me to do a remote disc scan & repair? (if needed)
Yes. Login by SSH, and use LE's command line tool fsck.exfat.
Depending on just what you're doing, and if it hasn't been addressed, there may be a problem with exFAT. I switched to exFAT because, like yourself, I had to run a repair every so often. I also have a homebrew disk mirroring program to make sure the live 6TB and the backup are kept in sync. This program uses file timestamps (and other things) and samba from my Windows PC. The way Kodi on the RPi4 and v12 calculated the timestamp and the way Windows calculated it were different so it looked as though I have a LOT of files to copy.
I had to switch back to NTFS on the RPi c 12 hours copying 
And other track to consider is to create a simple NAS using another SCB like RasPi, BanaPi, ODROID or similar (just check USB type and Gigabit network).
Move Your disks to a central storage and install MySQL/MariaDB to have central DB as well.
The way Kodi on the RPi4 and v12 calculated the timestamp and the way Windows calculated it were different so it looked as though I have a LOT of files to copy.
Hi,
Files have some date-time properties, creation, last write, last access... probably that synchronization tool, in case of exfat partition doesn't use the proper timestamp pairs. I had some issue when I created a small program and needed to check the time when files where created. I used the last write time instead of creation time to avoid the issues.
I had too many issues with accessing ntfs partitions on linux, in my dual boot (W11 and Xubuntu) PC I'm using an exfat partition for "common files". If we talking about a media what need to be accessed with linux and windows too, the simplest solution is the exfat partition (it's not a common thing to use file synchronization tools with linux-windows devices). For "only linux", always the ext4 is recommended. And if really need, reading an ext4 partition on windows, isn't an impossible task too...
Since I am interested in synchronisation I use the file modified timestamp rather than file created one. Works fine on NTFS but not exFAT
I also have a homebrew disk mirroring program to make sure the live 6TB and the backup are kept in sync.
This is exactly what I have running, it's just once in a while something gets corrupted & new files don't show up in KODI until I run a disc scan to fix the problem.
I use XYPlorer on Windows and one thing I have noticed (or my mind tells me I have) is that if I leave XYPlorer open for a while after file writes to the 6TB HDD on Kodi and especially after file deletes have supposedly finished it seems that I get less corruption.
Its entirely possible that this is a figment of my imagination, but it may be worth trying.
I use FileZilla to copy files from TVHeadend recordings since it will use : in folder names (eg NEW:.....) but for everything else its XYPlorer/SAMBA
For such purpose I user Commander One, It's filezilla alternative for Mac. To remotely manage and repair an NTFS drive on your Raspberry Pi, consider using ntfsfix orntfs-3g in combination with SSH.
For such purpose I user Commander One, It's filezilla alternative for Mac. To remotely manage and repair an NTFS drive on your Raspberry Pi, consider using ntfsfix
orntfs-3gin combination with SSH.
Try to find out more here:https://mac.eltima.com/alternative-filezilla-mac.html
