<div dir="ltr"><div>> Last I heard, NTFS support on Linux was still kind of hackish. You might be<br>
> better off with a vfat space, plus separate storage spaces optimized for<br>
> each OS. Or just virtualize Windows entirely.<br><br></div>In my experience, NTFS usage has been rock-solid, if a little slow. I'm using it via the fuse-ntfs-3g modules that come bundled with CentOS. Among my collection of external drives, most are either XFS or ext4, but I have one ~160G drive that I formatted NTFS so I could share files larger than 4gb between my Windows and Linux systems. It hasn't been any trouble at all.<br>
<br>The only caveat is, it is much better to initially create a NTFS filesystem on Windows. On Linux there is a mkntfs program, but in my experience the filesystems created with that program don't play well under Windows.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Rob Funk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rfunk@funknet.net" target="_blank">rfunk@funknet.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Saturday, February 01, 2014 08:47:36 AM Dan Kaiser wrote:<br>
> Sounds like a good idea to pick a Debian based distro at first (because<br>
> I'm familiar) and then try many others virtually and branch out as time<br>
> goes on.<br>
<br>
</div>I'd agree with that.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I have only used VirtualBox (VB) under OS X, but will have to do some<br>
> playing with KVM and others if available. VB had the limitation of only<br>
> running 32-bit systems. If I can find one that will host 64-bit systems I<br>
> can nuke my win7 partition and only use it virtually when needed.<br>
<br>
</div>I just recently installed 64-bit OS X on VirtualBox running on 64-bit<br>
kUbuntu. I haven't tried it with Win7 though.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> My current plan is to dual boot the distro of my choice along with win7<br>
> (it came with the computer so why not) on a smaller mSATA drive, and<br>
> have the standard HDD be shared storage (vFAT or NTFS).<br>
><br>
> Anyone using a similar set-up and have any warnings or tips for setup?<br>
<br>
</div>Last I heard, NTFS support on Linux was still kind of hackish. You might be<br>
better off with a vfat space, plus separate storage spaces optimized for<br>
each OS. Or just virtualize Windows entirely.<br>
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