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Re:Windows on Btrfs by Kwpolska on Saturday April 22, 2023 @05:25AM (#35664755)
Linux has good NTFS drivers. If you want to dual boot and share files, you just make three partitions: Windows (NTFS), Linux (whatever the cool kids are using these days), and Shared Data (NTFS).
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Re:Windows on Btrfs by wongarsu on Saturday April 22, 2023 @06:32AM (#35665088)
And before linux had good NTFS drivers, you just put your shared data on FAT32.
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Re:Windows on Btrfs by joveian on Saturday April 22, 2023 @01:48PM (#35669135)
EXFAT is another option these days.
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Re:Windows on Btrfs by Kwpolska on Sunday April 23, 2023 @03:59AM (#35674289)
In my experience, exFAT support in Linux is worse than NTFS support (and NTFS is more likely to be installed out-of-the-box). If you also need to support macOS, then exFAT might be an option, but exFAT lacks journalling and doesn’t scale too well due to cluster size/count limits.
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