[ale] Local File Storage options

[Calvin Harrigan]

On 8/2/2019 12:14, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>     I've found myself in a situation where I need to share several 
> large partitions on a single machine across Windows 10 and Linux 
> (ubuntu 18.04)
>
> What would be the best filesystem option for sharing read/write access 
> to these partitions?  I thought about using NTFS with ntfs-3g under 
> linux, but because of the proprietary nature of NTFS, I'm reluctant.  
> I'm afraid of catastrophic filesystem failure in the event of a driver 
> error.  Is VFAT(fat32) a viable option?  It officially has a limit of 
> 32GB, though I know it can go as high as 2TB.  It offers no features 
> of a modern filesystem though.  EXT4 doesn't have a practical driver 
> based solution for windows.  There are programs like Ext2Fsd, but I 
> have the same issues with it as I do with ntfs-3g.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
As pointed out by Neil, this is local storage, dual boot setup.


Thanks