NTFS3 disk errors when torrenting

the recommended mounting options for ntfs3 include both noatime,prealloc. this might specially apply for torrenting.

i had issues where qbitorrent quit on a ntfs3 mount when onetime i had a powerloss while torrenting. the NTFS partition was corrupted, and could only be fixed by chkdsk /f in windows. also if you are using ntfsfix always use the ‘-d’ flag, any check without the -d flag make the NTFS partition marked as being dirty, which could lead to the partition being at worse being unmountable or lead to other issues with ntfs3. ntfs-3g somehow seems to work nevertheless.

ntfs3 implementation is still rough on the edges, worse its not maintained for sometime now, so dont expect the current issues to go away soon.

like others have suggested exfat is recommended if you can switch.