The "prepare exfat ntfs drives 130 hold to keep existing cache" process is a specialized utility routine designed for managing external storage, specifically for preserving metadata/caches on game or media drives while transitioning between file systems
while read -r dev; do echo "Processing $dev" | tee -a $LOG_FILE prepare exfat ntfs drives 130 hold to keep existing cache
⚠️ Warning: Quick formatting an exFAT or NTFS drive without backup will permanently erase the 130 GB cache with no standard recovery guarantee. The "prepare exfat ntfs drives 130 hold to
umount $dev* 2>/dev/null
Only for NTFS HDDs; never for SSDs.
md5sum /old/backup/cache_checksums.txt /mnt/drive/Cache/ /dev/null Only for NTFS HDDs