Usable for a shared partition on a multi-boot system?

JElchison / format-udf

Bash script to format a block device (hard drive or Flash drive) in UDF. The output is a drive that can be used for reading/writing across multiple operating system families: Windows, macOS, and Linux. This script should be capable of running in macOS or in Linux.

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Usable for a shared partition on a multi-boot system? #19

Closed danryu closed 8 years ago

danryu commented 8 years ago

I was looking to use UDF to format a shared Linux/Win/OSX data partition on laptops.

Is this approach suitable for this use case?

JElchison commented 8 years ago

I've not tried myself, but seems plausible. Highly dependent on your choice of bootloader. GRUB 2 seems like it's both cross-platform and supports UDF.

Report back with your findings?

Thanks!

JElchison commented 8 years ago

hi @danryu, since it's been over 3 months, i'm assuming you didn't find anything interesting. as such, i'm closing this issue for now. however, feel free to re-comment if you discover anything. thanks!

danryu commented 8 years ago

Hi @JElchison, sorry, I changed requirements in the end, deciding to go for a single-boot system and lots of virtualbox instead. But I still think that for a general-purpose shared data partition for any multi-boot systems, going UDF seems to have the least compromises as far as I can tell. NTFS works fine on a Linux/Windows boot until you want to apply permissions and the like and then things get complicated. Still gonna try your script next time I'm formatting some flash drives though, thanks!