On a pc dual booting Windows and Linux, what type of file system do you recommended for partition that will be used for media storage that can be read by both Windows and Linux?
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On a pc dual booting Windows and Linux, what type of file system do you recommended for partition that will be used for media storage that can be read by both Windows and Linux?
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Fat32 is an abomination! If you must have windows compat, go NTFS, it's the only one MS cares about anymore.
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Either is fine. I would go with NTFS.
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Definitely NTFS. Ubuntu has no problems reading it/writing to it and it's better than FAT32.
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NTFS. One primary reason: file and volume size limits. Especially since you mentioned media.
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NTFS is much better than FAT32. See this comparison.
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