Need partitioning advice

[AndrewZ]

I'm going to be at work all day and won't be able to respond to anything, so I'l try to give as much info as possible. I have a MacBook Pro that's running MacOS and Windows through bootcamp. I bought a 1TB Samsung external SSD and I'm not sure how I need to partition it. I would like to use it as extra storage on both operating systems. Do I need to have 2 separate 500GB partitions for each operating system or can I just have a single 1TB partition that I can use from both operating systems? Also, if I need separate partitions, what file systems do they need to be? Thank you in advance.

[Metallus97]

You can format it with exFAT. That is supported well on both OS. This is how I do my external media because I also use Mac and Win . However on Win I sometimes had problems reading/writing exFAT that was formatted with Mac. So format the drive with Windows + make sure to use a GPT table. Then it should work no problemo.

[Programmer Frank]

You can format it as GUID Partition Table.

You can do all your idea.

You can format as FAT, exFAT. Then Windows and macOS can read them both.

Or, split 2 500GB partition. One is HFS+ and the other one is NTFS.

Hope can help you!

[Programmer Frank]

But remember, exFAT or NTFS or HFS+ or APFS, they didn't work on Linux.

But FAT32 can compatibility all OS.

[Metallus97]

6 hours ago, Programmer Frank said:

But remember, exFAT or NTFS or HFS+ or APFS, they didn't work on Linux.

But FAT32 can compatibility all OS.

With a modern Linux kernel you will have support for NTFS and exFAT. There are also drivers for HFS+, but meh. APFS however I think is not supported in linux