So recently tried zorin os and now im dual booting it with windows, and because of that I need a have NTFS partition between them. Now I have a 256gb windows partition, a 256 linux partition and a 1.7 Tb shared ntfs partition shared between them and I wonder how do you organize your files if you need to have them on another partition and cant use ~.

For programs they will always end up on / and I cant install them on another partition (dont know why) but what do you do for files? What folders do you have and where are they?

  • thayer@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    When I did dual-boot, I almost always used a dedicated partition or drive for shared media. Back then, it was usually formatted as FAT32, but sometimes NTFS. These days, I’d probably make it exFAT, since it supports large files without the hassle of permissions, and is itself supported by both Windows and Linux.

    As for organizing things, I treated the drive as if it were a file server (which is what I use now). The general hierarchy looks like this:

    Backups
    Books
    Documents
    Downloads
    Games
    Images
    Music
    Notes
    Photos
    Software 
    Videos
    Webdev