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I considered this in the past. Linux support for NTFS is much better than any of the mechanisms to read ext3/4/btrfs/etc on Windows/Mac. Your options for a Wind
by Macha 4y ago
I considered this in the past. Linux support for NTFS is much better than any of the mechanisms to read ext3/4/btrfs/etc on Windows/Mac. Your options for a Windows/Mac/Linux portable filesystem are basically exFAT or NTFS.
That said, now I use LUKS on Linux and Bitlocker on Windows, I've mostly just given up on a shared filesystem
- yrro 4y agoHow do the Linux-specific properties of files get stored on NTFS (e.g., file owner/group/mode?)
- bzxcvbn 4y agoNTFS ACLs are much more powerful than Unix permissions. Just map users to users, groups to groups, and you're done.
- zerocrates 4y agontfs-3g (is that still how Linux machines are mounting NTFS read/write? it's been a while since I've done it) by default just doesn't do anything with the NTFS permissions and makes everything have a shared owner/group/mode as seen by Linux. You can opt in to having it store Linux permissions in NTFS's ACLs, and there's an option to have a file that maps between Linux and Windows user IDs to allow for interoperability.
- pantalaimon 4y ago> is that still how Linux machines are mounting NTFS read/write ntfs-3g is a FUSE based driver (and not much maintained anymore), Linux now has a fully featured kernel driver with ntfs3 - which is also what TFA is about. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/ntfs3.html https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/ntfs3.htm...
- zerocrates 4y agoOh yes, of course, so it is (what the article is about). Oops. Documentation for ntfs3 is a little thin on the ground.
- CoolCold 4y agoI have not tried personally (have no Linux installed), but from docs it should be quite possible to mount your partition of Linux with WSL2. Google for "WSL mount". May work on latest Windows 11 only though.