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#1 2021-02-01 18:03:27
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Media Hard Drive, interchangeable windows & linux??!?
So I was wondering, whether it was possible to format a hard drive in a way that I can use it from a Linux system AND a windows 10 system interchangeably? (e.g. a media HDD)
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#2 2021-02-01 18:17:43
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Re: Media Hard Drive, interchangeable windows & linux??!?
Yep, you just need to choose a filesystem that's supported by both OS's.
NTFS and exFAT are a couple that spring to mind.
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#3 2021-02-01 19:05:42
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Re: Media Hard Drive, interchangeable windows & linux??!?
Is there one that you can particularly recommend for such use?
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#4 2021-02-01 19:07:38
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Re: Media Hard Drive, interchangeable windows & linux??!?
I hear there is Btrfs driver for windows
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#5 2021-02-02 01:29:33
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Re: Media Hard Drive, interchangeable windows & linux??!?
I think NTFS has a 4 GB limit per file, at least this was the case in the past at some point, not sure if it's still there.
I'd go with exfat! It has no such limit effectively.
On arch you will need to install exfat-utils I guess.
If you are ok with a 4 GB file size limit, I'd still recommend FAT32 over NTFS because you are less likely to run into troubles on Linux such as dirty-flagged volumes and stuff that require some extra ntfs-related tools to handle.
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#6 2021-02-02 08:59:30
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Re: Media Hard Drive, interchangeable windows & linux??!?
No, NTFS does not have a 4 GB file size limit.
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#7 2021-02-02 15:08:45
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Re: Media Hard Drive, interchangeable windows & linux??!?
[...]
On arch you will need to install exfat-utils I guess.[...]
That's is the fuse driver, you want exfatprogs
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#8 2021-02-02 15:20:20
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Re: Media Hard Drive, interchangeable windows & linux??!?
If you are planning on having many small files in each directory (this is my case where, for work reasons, I need to deal with a lot of data chunks) do NOT pick FAT32 as it has a maximum number of files per directory of only 2^16=65536.
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#9 2021-02-02 17:34:44
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Re: Media Hard Drive, interchangeable windows & linux??!?
Rules for problems.
Everyone has problems. Animals have problems. And buildings. And cats, and trees.
Problems are your friends. Treat them well.
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