Currently, the best filesystem to share content between Windows and Linux is exFAT, specially on USB pendrives and SD cards. exFAT is, roughly speaking, a revision of FAT32 without the 4GB max file size limitation.
If not installed, you will have to install exFAT support.
$ sudo apt install exfat-utilsFrom here, you have two options. Use a graphical tool like gparted or the command line (which is more fun). Find below steps for the latter.
- Plug-in the USB pendrive/SD card.
- Identify the device. It should be one of
/dev/sd?. In a terminal, run the below command which will show connected devices and partition mount points. In this example,/dev/sdbis the device, with two partitions, the first of which is mounted.
$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb 8:16 1 15G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 1 256M 0 part /media/myuser/mydevice
└─sdb2 8:18 1 14,7G 0 part
nvme0n1 259:0 0 931,5G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 64G 0 part /
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 256G 0 part /home
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 38G 0 part [SWAP]
├─nvme0n1p5 259:5 0 448G 0 part /data
├─nvme0n1p6 259:6 0 16M 0 part
└─nvme0n1p7 259:7 0 125G 0 part - Unmount mounted partitions.
$ umount /dev/sdb1- Create a new partition table and partition of type HPFS/NTFS/exFAT.
$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb # Pay attention! No final digit is used.
Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.34).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.
Command (m for help):- Create a new (dos) partition table: press
oandenter. - Create a new partition: press
n,enterand accept default options. - Change the partition type to HPFS/NTFS/exFAT: press
t,enter,7,enter. - Quit saving changes: press
wandenter. - You can quit without saving changes: press
qandenter.
- Format the partition.
$ sudo mkfs.exfat -n "my label" /dev/sdb1 # Pay attention! Final digit is used.
mkexfatfs 1.3.0
Creating... done.
Flushing... done.
File system created successfully.