• --exclude Videos for separate drive

rsync --recursive --update --ignore-existing --verbose --debug='ALL' --exclude 'Videos' '/run/media/espionage724/NAS/' '/run/media/espionage724/20250824-NAS'

--checksum --checksum-choice='md4'

• 2025/10/20: Windows NTFS → Linux ext4
• 10TB Main

• superfloppy partitionless ¹⁾

lsblk

sudo umount '/dev/sda'*

sudo wipefs -a -f '/dev/sda' && sudo dd if='/dev/zero' of='/dev/sda' count='8096'

sudo mkfs.ext4 -D -L 'NAS' -O 'fast_commit' -v '/dev/sda'

• GNOME auto-mounts

sudo chown -R 'espionage724':'espionage724' '/run/media/espionage724/NAS'

udisksctl mount --block-device '/dev/sda'

• 4TB HDD restore to 10TB NAS drive
• Exclude Videos, Games, Music

rsync --recursive --update --ignore-existing --verbose --debug='ALL' --exclude 'Videos' --exclude 'Games' --exclude 'Music' '/run/media/espionage724/20250824-NAS/' '/run/media/espionage724/NAS'

• Games

rsync --recursive --update --ignore-existing --verbose --debug='ALL' '/run/media/espionage724/20250824-NAS/Games/' '/run/media/espionage724/NAS/Games'

• Music ( && with Videos overnight)

rsync --recursive --update --ignore-existing --verbose --debug='ALL' '/run/media/espionage724/20250824-NAS/Music/' '/run/media/espionage724/NAS/Music'

• Videos (some)

rsync --recursive --update --ignore-existing --verbose --debug='ALL' '/run/media/espionage724/20250824-NAS/Videos/' '/run/media/espionage724/NAS/Videos'

• Videos 2 (WD ext)

rsync --recursive --update --ignore-existing --verbose --debug='ALL' '/run/media/espionage724/688EDD408EDD0808/Dragon Ball DBOX' '/run/media/espionage724/NAS/Videos/Anime'

rsync --recursive --update --ignore-existing --verbose --debug='ALL' '/run/media/espionage724/688EDD408EDD0808/Dragon Ball GT' '/run/media/espionage724/NAS/Videos/Anime'

sync && udisksctl unmount --block-device '/dev/sda'

sudo e2fsck -D -E 'discard,optimize_extents,inode_count_fullmap,check_encoding,unshare_blocks' -f -v -y '/dev/sda'

• First-time seemingly takes longer than the whole 5TB+ restore

udisksctl mount --block-device '/dev/sda'

sudo e4defrag -v '/dev/sda' && sync && udisksctl unmount --block-device '/dev/sda'