I’m planning on dual booting Windows and Linux on my computer, but each system from a separate hard drive, but what about my 3rd hard drive (which i use mostly for storing games, videos etc…) Should i use ExFAT? I can’t really use NTFS because Linux can’t write to it.
- Papamousse ( @Frederic@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
Why not? I’m doing the same, I have a dual boot windows/linux and a 2nd SSD is shared for data/pic/whatever and it’s a standard NTFS drive formatted by windows. It is very reliable, never had a single problem reading/writing to it from linux.
- Foidi | she/her ( @Foidi@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
I have shared drive with ntfs and it works fine, like no problems, but I just had to download ntfs driver
- domdel ( @DominicDeligann@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
i think exfat is your best bet. linux can read/write on an ntfs drive but its slower (at least on my pc).
- dark_stang ( @dark_stang@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
You can mount ext4 in windows now. I have no idea what the limitations are though.
- Sharmat ( @Sharmat@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Your best bet might be probably NTFS, just install ntfs-3g and use that as the file system type when mounting, it should work fine.
Though it will be slower than in windows.
- Wolfram ( @Wolfram@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
It is actually possible to use BTRFS with Windows. I’ve had some success using this tool between Linux and Windows, it can do in-place conversions of an NTFS drive if you need as well.
- SinJab0n ( @SinJab0n@mujico.org ) 1•1 year ago
Nope !
I tried using it and it causes horrible bottle necks, sometimes it just -stops- and refuses to work until a reboot.
If u use windows u r stuck with ntfs.
- Wolfram ( @Wolfram@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Interesting, not in my experience so far. Though I acknowledge this is definitely experimental.
- EvilColeslaw ( @EvilColeslaw@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
I’d just use exFAT, yeah.