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zuntik

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Registered: 2017-08-11

Posts: 46

What partition type for shared windows/linux truecrypt data partition?

Hello,

I have a partition on my SSD disk that I would like to share between both Archlinux and Windows. I want it to be encrypted so I'm going to use cryptsetup to create the partition of type tcrypt so that windows can decrypt it too with veracrypt. Then, I was thinking of making it an exFAT partition because it can be read by both Windows and Linux unless there are other recommendations (I don't understand concepts like journaling so I guess I'm not really worried).

So I guess the first order of business is to format the partition with something like fdisk but it is going to ask what partition type do I want to use.

What do you suggest?

Thank You

jonathon

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Registered: 2016-09-19

Posts: 128

Re: What partition type for shared windows/linux truecrypt data partition?

exFAT would seem to be a decent choice for sharing data between Windows and Linux.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,339

Re: What partition type for shared windows/linux truecrypt data partition?

The partition type doesn't matter for plain data partitions not intended for booting or the like, pick whatever.

Last edited by V1del (2021-04-04 21:07:01)