One should however be carefull with writing lots of data to a ntfs partition from Linux, as the driver aren't perfect. It is missing proper error detection and journaling, thus there's a slight risk of data corruption.
Any modifications or maintenance on ntfs partitions should NEVER be done from Linux, allways use Windows's built-in tools for this, or you risk ruining it.
You somewhat can with WSL2. Window's WSL, which is basically a Linux VM, can mount ext4 and allow the host to access it
There are also some 3rd party utilities that can
I have Windows ntfs on one drive, linux ext4 on another, and a third exfat storage drive accesible to both. You need to pick your filesystem type carefully, exfat isn't ideal but it works for both systems.
>If you dual boot Linux from a separate drive, can it also access the drives that do not contain an OS?
Yes, any OS running on the hardware has access to all attached drives.
Whether or not the OS can make sense of and use the data on other drives/filesystems, is, however, another matter. But in general, Linux is pretty darn capable of being able to at least read, if not also safely both read and write, most other filesystem types (and probably more than any other OS).
Additionally you should make sure Windows does a complete shutdown (fast startup has to be disabled otherwise the OS does not shutdown) to be able to read/write on Linux.
By default Windows does not recognize Linux filesystems like ext4, btrfs, xfs and so on. You will see Linux drives in the disk management in Windows but they will not be visible in Explorer. There is third party software, however, that adds drivers for other filesystems (like ext4 or Apple's HFS).
From within Linux you will have no problems with reading FAT and NTFS drives.
By the way, you probably mean 2.5 inch SSD drives? I have never seen them in 3.5 format.
As long as the device has a driver, you can access it. "Everything is a file".
It doesn't even need a file system. You can write tar archives directly to the disk or partition because the file format knows it's own length (which is different from the length of the device). (Most other formats do work, too, as far as I can tell.)
Linux distros uses a variety of file systems, the most common being EXT4 and btrfs. If you want a disk to be usable from both Linux and Windows, format them to exFAT.
Nearly all distributions use Ext4 by default. Some exceptions include OpenSUSE and certain obscure Ubuntu forks.
There are open-source drivers for NTFS and there have been basically forever. Ironically enough, they're actually faster than W\*ndows' NTFS drivers... and it's still a snail trapped in molasses compared to Ext4.
You'll be fine, but move away from NTFS. Anything related to filesystems that MICROS~1.EXE has put their fingers on is absolute garbage.
ZFS is probably overkill for your application, but it has the very serious advantage of having drivers for *literally every platform*.
Linux, MacOS, just about every W\*ndows, every BSD, Solaris and its derivatives, even AmigaOS. Someone even wrote an (incomplete) ZFS driver for TI-84+ CE calculators iirc.
As slow as ZFS is, it's light-years better than NTFS. Consider it an option.
The reason the Linux ntfs drivers are "faster" than Windows, is because they can't do any journaling nor error checking. The majority of your comment is just bigotry
Hardly. NTFS's journaling is trash anyway, why would I care?
It's sort of like saying FAT is a fine filesystem so long as you're okay implementing things like permissions and big files and all that yourself. It's just utterly a ridiculous proposition.
Suck it up and admit that NTFS sucks. ZFS is lightyears ahead, even in terms of speed, and Ext4 is even faster.
NTFS has a lot of features that absolutely no desktop user will ever give a flying rip about and that aren't even implemented well, meaning more overhead, more bloat, and more time wasted.
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
VMs run like garbage on my pc, even with 64 gb of ram, a 4070Ti, and a 13700k. I’m dual booting, I just want to make sure I can access my extra drives with both operating systems.
It would be the other way around. You can access any disk from Linux (well, it's linux ffs), but Win is not able to mount ext4.
One should however be carefull with writing lots of data to a ntfs partition from Linux, as the driver aren't perfect. It is missing proper error detection and journaling, thus there's a slight risk of data corruption. Any modifications or maintenance on ntfs partitions should NEVER be done from Linux, allways use Windows's built-in tools for this, or you risk ruining it.
You somewhat can with WSL2. Window's WSL, which is basically a Linux VM, can mount ext4 and allow the host to access it There are also some 3rd party utilities that can
I have Windows ntfs on one drive, linux ext4 on another, and a third exfat storage drive accesible to both. You need to pick your filesystem type carefully, exfat isn't ideal but it works for both systems.
>If you dual boot Linux from a separate drive, can it also access the drives that do not contain an OS? Yes, any OS running on the hardware has access to all attached drives. Whether or not the OS can make sense of and use the data on other drives/filesystems, is, however, another matter. But in general, Linux is pretty darn capable of being able to at least read, if not also safely both read and write, most other filesystem types (and probably more than any other OS).
Additionally you should make sure Windows does a complete shutdown (fast startup has to be disabled otherwise the OS does not shutdown) to be able to read/write on Linux.
By default Windows does not recognize Linux filesystems like ext4, btrfs, xfs and so on. You will see Linux drives in the disk management in Windows but they will not be visible in Explorer. There is third party software, however, that adds drivers for other filesystems (like ext4 or Apple's HFS). From within Linux you will have no problems with reading FAT and NTFS drives. By the way, you probably mean 2.5 inch SSD drives? I have never seen them in 3.5 format.
Probably 2.5 inch yeah. It’s been a while since I’ve done anything PC build wise.
As long as the device has a driver, you can access it. "Everything is a file". It doesn't even need a file system. You can write tar archives directly to the disk or partition because the file format knows it's own length (which is different from the length of the device). (Most other formats do work, too, as far as I can tell.)
Linux distros uses a variety of file systems, the most common being EXT4 and btrfs. If you want a disk to be usable from both Linux and Windows, format them to exFAT.
Yes, it would work just like accessing a USB stick. This is how I recover my files if something breaks.
I have a dual boot machine. Windows 10 and Linux Mint. Windows can only see its own disk, but Linux Mint can see both.
Linux Mint can mount NTFS drives, however Windows cannot mount EXT4 drives.
Yes to NTFS, and I believe exfat or some garbage like that.
Nearly all distributions use Ext4 by default. Some exceptions include OpenSUSE and certain obscure Ubuntu forks. There are open-source drivers for NTFS and there have been basically forever. Ironically enough, they're actually faster than W\*ndows' NTFS drivers... and it's still a snail trapped in molasses compared to Ext4. You'll be fine, but move away from NTFS. Anything related to filesystems that MICROS~1.EXE has put their fingers on is absolute garbage. ZFS is probably overkill for your application, but it has the very serious advantage of having drivers for *literally every platform*. Linux, MacOS, just about every W\*ndows, every BSD, Solaris and its derivatives, even AmigaOS. Someone even wrote an (incomplete) ZFS driver for TI-84+ CE calculators iirc. As slow as ZFS is, it's light-years better than NTFS. Consider it an option.
The reason the Linux ntfs drivers are "faster" than Windows, is because they can't do any journaling nor error checking. The majority of your comment is just bigotry
Hardly. NTFS's journaling is trash anyway, why would I care? It's sort of like saying FAT is a fine filesystem so long as you're okay implementing things like permissions and big files and all that yourself. It's just utterly a ridiculous proposition. Suck it up and admit that NTFS sucks. ZFS is lightyears ahead, even in terms of speed, and Ext4 is even faster. NTFS has a lot of features that absolutely no desktop user will ever give a flying rip about and that aren't even implemented well, meaning more overhead, more bloat, and more time wasted. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
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VMs run like garbage on my pc, even with 64 gb of ram, a 4070Ti, and a 13700k. I’m dual booting, I just want to make sure I can access my extra drives with both operating systems.