Re: [PLUG] What's the best way to share a partition between windows and linux in 2017?

[PaulNM <plug@paulscrap.com>]

I recommend and use exfat for this kind of use. It has the benefit of 
being writable by Macs as well, without having to pay for software.

One thing to watch out for with exfat, don't use rsync -a. There's some 
kind of quirk where rsync will end up recopying data that's already 
there. I've seen different reasons given, but it seems to be related to 
timestamps and/or permission issues. Not sure why, as other file systems 
that don't support permissions or as granular timestamps seem to work 
fine. (Most notably vfat.)

https://superuser.com/questions/919127/rsync-resending-all-files-because-files-have-different-timestamp-off-by-1-se

http://blog.marcelotmelo.com/linux/ubuntu/rsync-to-an-exfat-partition/

- PaulNM

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