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I've been using NTFS on USB sticks and external drivers for over 5 years when using Linux / Windows mixed use. No problems so far. This of course wouldn't mean

I've been using NTFS on USB sticks and external drivers for over 5 years when using Linux / Windows mixed use. No problems so far. This of course wouldn't mean it's problem free or 'rock solid', but in normal daily use I haven't encountered any. Why? Because meta data journaling. exFAT works as well, but it doesn't journal -> less reliable.

pwg 10y ago
You can also use UDF (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format) for inter-op between Linux and Windows. Here is a Linux script to format a drive as UDF so it is usable with both Linux and Windows: https://github.com/JElchison/format-udf/blob/master/format-udf.sh https://github.com/JElchison/format-udf/blob/master/format-u... UDF works well for thumb drives that are large enough that you might want to copy a file to the thumb drive that exceeds the max file size of a FAT filesystem.