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

["Keith C. Perry" <kperry@daotechnologies.com>]

+1 for exFAT or NTFS if you're not running a separate storage system for your data.  I've been using NTFS for years without a problem.  exFAT being newer isn't as battle tested but suspect its fairly safe to use because of its lineage.

exFAT is not a journaling filesystem so that may or may not matter to you.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Barry" <christopher.r.barry@gmail.com>
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2017 11:11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] What's the best way to share a partition between windows and linux in 2017?

On Sat, 13 May 2017 01:12:10 -0400
PaulNM <plug@paulscrap.com> wrote:

>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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might be a couple of rsync switches to read up on to see if they may
mitigate that issue.

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