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.
Linux can write NTFS just fine.
Another alternative is to use ext4 and then install something in Windows to read it, like Linux File Systems For Windows or similar. *
exFAT supports R&W between approximately Linux 3+, Windows 8+, and Android 13+. It should also support macOS. NTFS is significantly more reliable and functional, but only supports R&W on specific Android apps, is read-only on macOS, but is perfectly usable on new versions of Linux, and Windows 7+.
i think exfat is your best bet. linux can read/write on an ntfs drive but its slower (at least on my pc).
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.
I have shared drive with ntfs and it works fine, like no problems, but I just had to download ntfs driver
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.
Myself I have dual boot. For the sake of simplicity - let’s say I have 2 drives:
- 512GB NVME SSD - for OSes.
- 2TB SATA SSD - for games.
512gb ssd partitioned into 2 parts - 256 for Linux and 256 for Windows.
2TB ssd without partitions, but a plain BTRFS with zstd compression storage.
Guess what - There is WinBTRFS driver. I am also sharing the same Steam library (on 2TB ssd) between both OSes… 😅 Works like a charm. 👌👌👌
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.
I can’t really use NTFS because Linux can’t write to it.
This is not correct.
For example, there is the driver ntfs-3g. This allows read and write access to NTFS partitions. The disadvantage is that it uses FUSE and is therefore slower in some cases.
Since kernel 5.15, read and write access is also offered by the drivers provided by Paragon (ntfs3).
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS
Because I personally use btrfs as file system for Linux, I use WinBtrfs under Windows.
ExtFAT would also be a possibility. However, one should be aware that the file system was originally designed only for flash memory storage such as USB sticks.
The snippet from the Google search “What is FUSE Linux” told me that, according to wiki.archlinux.org, it allows a non-priviledged user to “create their own filesystem without editing kernel code”. What does “creating my own filesystem” mean? And what does that have to do with editing kernel code? I’m really sorry for asking questions that are this basic, but it took me 5 years to find a website that explained well enough how to run an exe file with arguments, I’m just not that bright
Before FUSE was available every filesystem driver had to be part of the kernel and adding a driver meant modifying the kernel. With FUSE filesystem drivers can be installed as normal software without the need to modify the kernel.
