On this laptop, where I am dual booting Mint and Windows.

[afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place]

On this laptop, where I am dual booting Mint and Windows. I have one partition for each.

But maybe I should have a third partition just for userland files that can be used from both OSes.

Yes, I realize this should be "common sense" but it isn't really.

The thing is I could put all game assets and game projects and even work projects in that partition and have them be ready for both Windows and Mint instead of having duplicates per partition.

Im not crazy, right?

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@afreytes the hard part is picking the right filesystem for that third partition.

[boydstephensmithjr@hachyderm.io]

@oblomov @afreytes IIRC, NTFS is writable from both, and relatively robust.

vfat also works, and that's what I use for USB drives shared between the systems.

I didn't dual boot long enough to find having a shared partition compelling. These days, with the way MS treats shared resources (boot sector, ESP, EFI entries / variables, etc.), I'd be concerned that MS Win would "screw up" any shared filesystem / partition.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@BoydStephenSmithJr @afreytes it's been some time since I last needed to share data, and in my days NTFS was “workable, but don't depend on it too much”, and vfat had the 4GB file limit. And of course forget about keeping the Unix permissions on either.