Prepare Exfat Ntfs Drives 130 Hold To Keep Existing Cache -

Use parted with mkpart but do not format yet. Set the start sector to 2048 (exactly where your old cache begins).

for dev in $(cat drives.txt); do
  parted -s $dev mklabel gpt
  parted -s $dev mkpart primary 2048s 100%
done

Now the partition table points to the raw cache sectors without overwriting them. prepare exfat ntfs drives 130 hold to keep existing cache

for dev in $(cat drives.txt); do
  mkfs.ntfs -Q -C -L CACHE_ARRAY --no-indexing $dev1
done

Critical warning: Do not use -f (force) unless you are certain. The --no-indexing flag prevents NTFS from building a new $LogFile over your existing cache sectors. Use parted with mkpart but do not format yet

Save the following as prepare_130_holds.sh: Now the partition table points to the raw

#!/bin/bash
DRIVE_LIST="drives.txt"
FSTYPE="exfat"  # or ntfs
LOG_FILE="prep_130.log"
echo "Starting 130-drive cache-preserving prep at $(date)" | tee -a $LOG_FILE
while read -r dev; do
echo "Processing $dev" | tee -a $LOG_FILE