Keith C. Perry on 15 May 2017 19:17:54 -0700


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


Just out of curiosity, why did you fire up the USB stick formatted if you already had the stick working as exFAT?

If you wanted to re-format it, you could do mkfs.exfat -f /dev/<partition device>.

(the -f may not be needed but some filesystems need that if you are going to overwrite an existing filesystem that is detected on the partition)

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Helledy" <gregsonh@gra-inc.com>
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2017 4:34:54 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] What's the best way to share a partition between windows and linux in 2017?

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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www.gra.aero
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