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) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Keith C. Perry, MS E.E. Owner, DAO Technologies LLC (O) +1.215.525.4165 x2033 (M) +1.215.432.5167 www.daotechnologies.com ----- 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 P: +1 215-884-7500 F: +1 215-884-1385 www.gra.aero ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug