exFAT in #! Waldorf ???

FlexBuffChest92 · 03-03-2013, 12:01 AM

Hey guys,

I am dual booting CrunchBang with Windows 7 and I am trying to reformat my external drives to a filesystem that can be read by both Windows and Linux. Which from my understanding would be exFAT, am I crazy or should this work? Are there any ways you can think of I could be able to do this? The only ways I've been able to find are ones that use apt-get and I have no internet connection right now.

David the H. · 03-03-2013, 01:00 AM

I'm afraid I don't understand what your problem is. "The only ways" ...to do what? Format the disk?

If so, why is that a problem? If you can't do it in Linux, just do it in Windows. And mounting just depends on having the necessary file system support installed.

I have no idea about exFAT, however. Is it really fully supported in Linux yet?

According to my understanding, I'd think you'd want to use NTFS instead. It's stable, can handle large data sets, and the FUSE module for it is very mature now.

Hungry ghost · 03-03-2013, 10:46 AM

In case you're talking about a data partition (or drive) that can be accessed by Windows and Linux, I agree that NTFS may be your best option (I'm dual booting too and most of my data is stored in a NTFS partition). If Crunchbang doesn't read NTFS out of the box, you might have to install ntfs-3g from the repositories.