Win 8.1 / Bodhi Linux (Ubuntu variant) dual boot file system?

I am about to order a new laptop with Win 7 or 8.1. I want to share music and videos, etc between the 2 systems. What are the best file system(s) to use? (I am getting a Samsung 840 pro drive) Thanks in advance, Josea

 

For me, there is no perfect solution here.

I use NTFS for the partitions I want to access from both OS's, and with ntfs-3g it works reasonably well. It isn't the fastest though. My mount options look like:

Code:

UUID=74D801BAD8017C1C  /mnt/files  ntfs-3g big_writes,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,hide_dot_files,hide_hid_files 0 0

I then use a symbolic link to put the Music and Videos folders in my /home/user directory.

Alternatively, there are ext file system drivers for windows that you can use. I find that ntfs-3g writing to an NTFS partition from linux is more reliable than using an extfs driver to write to an ext partition.

 

since you're planning to run bodhi, you could try to enable exFAT support. here's but one guide.

 

Personally, I've used NTFS to share between OSes back when I was running a dual-boot setup. Never experienced any performance issue from that setup, though, so it should be fine.