Converting NTFS to EXT4?

Question

linux

There is a 1TB hard drive, it has one NTFS partition (occupies the entire drive), about 150GB is free.
Need to convert it to EXT4 without data loss.
Searching for information on this topic gave 2 solutions:
1. Copy all data to another hard drive and format it completely in EXT4
2. Shrink the NTFS partition by 150GB, create an EXT4 partition in the freed space, transfer the first 150GB to it, then gradually reduce the NTFS partition and increase EXT4 and gradually transfer data
The first option is not suitable, because no free terabyte. The second option has the right to life, but you will have to do at least 6 iterations, which significantly increases the risks, and it will take a lot of time.
But I believe that progress does not stand still and it is possible to do it somehow easier. Am I wrong?

Answer 1

If you don't want to waste all the data, look for the second disk.

Answer 2

anyfs-tools.sourceforge.net/ ?

Answer 3

If you do, then with UPS or on a laptop with an external hard drive connection

Answer 4

and buy a terabyte of cloud storage in s3?

Answer 5

Save your valuable data on DVD discs. A spindle with a hundred pieces costs around 1K. It's 470 GB. The time is not much faster than muddied with gradual formatting, but still somehow more comfortable, IMHO.

Answer 6

Make friends with service workers at any hardware store and come to them with a Linux flash drive and your own screw and ask them to borrow a dock with a computer and 150GB for half an hour. Or just with someone who has 150GB to borrow for half an hour. A can of beer costs less and burns faster than a hundred discs.

Answer 7

the second option is not an option. Firstly, it takes longer than finding a terabyte, secondly, any failure and everything is for nothing, and thirdly, your ext4 will be terribly slow as a result due to fragmentation (any ext * is terribly fragmented if it works with filling “to the eyeballs” ", and it will work for you in this mode at least 6 times).