Dual Boot: Best file system for a shared partition? [duplicate]
I made a dual boot on my laptop.
I backed up all my files on an external HDD, destroyed the internal hard drive's partition table by creating a new one from an Ubuntu live USB,
Partitionned as following:
Windows (10) partition (150 GB) formatted as NTFS Ubuntu (18.04.1) partition (150 GB as well) formatted as Ext4 DATA partition (1.5 TB) formatted as NTFS for now, looking for a better choice
Installed Windows 10 - I had to delete the Windows partition in the Windows installer, then it created all it needed by selecting the empty space.
Installed Ubuntu - Only customized the root mount point and GRUB location (on the Ext4 partition)
Now I'm looking to mount my data partition in both Windows and Ubuntu automatically at startup. I, of course, have disabled fast boot in Windows. I have no idea how to achieve this in Ubuntu (I already know how to assign a folder to a specific location on the hard drive in Windows).
Ideally I'd use ExFAT but I'm not sure Linux can read/write on it.
EDIT: Here's the output of sudo parted -l:
Model: ATA ST2000LX001-1RG1 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda : 2000GB Sector Size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition table : gpt Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File System Name Flags 1 1049kB 524MB 523MB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, diag 2 524MB 629MB 105MB fat32 EFI system partition boot, esp 3 629MB 646MB 16,8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres 4 646MB 165GB 164GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata 5 165GB 329GB 165GB ext4 6 329GB 2000GB 1671GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata
Thanks in advance.
Solution 1:
You can indeed use exFAT on Linux after installing the exfat-fuse exfat-utils packages from aptitude on Ubuntu. I would recommend you stick to NTFS though. exFAT was designed for smaller drives.