Sharing Partition between Windows 10 and Linux Mint /Accessing Partion
 

Greetings Experts


I have a netbook and installed windows 10. It is slow. I have another partition Installed Linux mint.

I use cloud drive to share some files. So I have created a separate drive and I want to install dropbox in Linux and Windows point to same location so I can share the drive.


My Disk configuration as follows
Please refer to the image.
http://i.imgur.com/KxU0gNX.png

My problem is as follows

1. I can access the Win32 dev/sda8 in Linux but in Windows I am unable to see.

2. In Linux I can not access Win10 Partion dev/sda2

What is the best option for me to share a drive in two Operating System?
What should I do to access Windows Drive in Linux
How do I access Linux Drive in Windows 10?

Thank you in advance for your help. :)

Linux reader should let you access a partition with the ext 4 file system from Windows. http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/

Thanks pholland

I need to access the drive using other application such as Dropbox, vlc player etc. I know through linux-reader we can access but I can not sync directory in Dropbox. Every time I have to use linux-reader to copy to local drive in windows. This is a tedious task.

Anyway I can use conventional shred drive. At least one partition should be shared between linux and windows. If I boot from Linux I should able to read like any conventional drive. If I boot from Windows 10 I should able to read like any conventional drive.

Any possibility?

Thanks

On Mint you should see your various partitions under /media/username (substitute your actual username) by UUID. Are you saying sda2 isn't available there? sda8 is a windows partition and there isn't any logical reason why you would not see it from windows. Accessing a partition to read/write a Linux system is not possible in a default install of windows and you will need third party software to do that.

I thought if we have a separate partition windows (FAT32) and we can access from Windows 10. This same partition can be access from Linux.

Also Is their any way to overcome Limitation of 4 Primary Partition?

By using an extended partition (sda4) and creating logical partitions (sda5,sda6,sda7) which you are already using.

At first glance the only reason W10 may not be seeing sda8 is the partition ID may not be configured correctly. Post the output of the command
sudo fdisk -l (that is a small L).

Using NTFS as a shared drive might be a better choice if your files will be larger than 4GB.

Yes. In your original post you said you could NOT access the windows FAT32 partition on sda8 from windows. What I said is that a standard windows system will NOT be able to read/write a partition with a Linux filesystem. That being the case, you would need a windows filesystem on the partition for both windows and Linux to access it. That doesn't seem to be your problem. I don't know why you can't see the windows ntfs partition on sda2 from Mint. I have several windows partitions on my disk and don't have any problem accessing them. Did you look under the /media directory for sda2? It should show by UUID. How are you trying to access sda2 and failing?

By creating an Extended partition so that you can create logical partitions within it. You already have this, sda4 is an Extended partition and you have several logical partitions within it.

Thanks Michaelk

I have created using gparted. gparted do not have option to create NTFS file system. They have only FAT32.
How do I create NTFS?


Windows 10, The Disk Management shows as follows
There are many Primary Partion (I have created as Secondary Partition in Linux but Windows Detects as Primary partition). Also formatted in FAT32 is shown as unallocated partition.



http://i.imgur.com/F42BXvB.png



Eevnthough Unallocated partition is allocated and formatted in FAT32, windows detects wrongly. I have tried to format. got the following message

http://i.imgur.com/WjaJQ9D.png


Thank you in advance.

Windows <10 will not let you create a FAT32 filesystem greater then 32GB but it should read / write if it already exists. I found nothing so far to indicate that windows 10 is different.

Not sure why sd8 only shows as unallocated.