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Curious if NTFS would be my best bet? I’ll have two m.2 drives, one with each OS on it, and then a bunch of drives connected to the mobo.

Would both OSes be able read/write to the drives with no issues?

I don’t think I’d ever drive share to MacOS but can that read/write as well?

Thanks!

Chris
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  • Yes, NTFS is a good file system for data (read and write access) from both operating systems (Linux and Windows), and it has a journal, which makes it robust.

  • For USB pendrives and memory cards you can also consider exFAT.

  • MacOS does not read standard Linux file systems (e.g. ext4), and not NTFS, but FAT32 and exFAT should work will all three 'main' OS systems.

You find more details at

Edit: In dual boot systems with Ubuntu and Windows, it is a good idea to turn off 'Fast Startup' in Windows, in order to avoid this 'semi-hibernation' that leaves the file systems [that were mounted by Windows] in a 'dirty' state.

sudodus
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Btrfs should also work, you'll need a driver tho, on Windows that is.

Dev4fuN
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