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

[Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>]

This has been very helpful, thanks to everyone for your advice!

I formatted a 1GB USB drive as exFAT on the windows (7) machine and 
plugged it into the linux machine (Mint 17.0 using KDE). It recognized 
the device but when I went to mount it it produced an error, to the 
effect that it could not handle an exfat file system.

After a quick search I installed packages exfat-fuse and exfat-utils. 
Then I could mount the drive with no problem.  I copied and deleted an 
850 MB file, and a folder full of smaller files, on this new exFAT 
partition.

I then fired up an application called "USB Stick Formatter"--not sure if 
that's specific to KDE or Mint.  It gave me the choice to format my 
drive to:  vfat, NTFS or ext4 (but still no exfat).  I decided to go 
with NTFS.  Once that was done, I copied and deleted the same 850 MB 
file and folder of smaller files.  I didn't do anything to time it, but 
speeds seemed to be the same with NTFS as with exFAT.

Since NTFS seems to be well-supported and offers journaling which exFAT 
does not, I think it's the better choice for a hard drive in an 
enclosure that will be swapped back and forth between my two 
environments (Mac is not a factor for me).
--
Greg Helledy
GRA, Incorporated
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