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What's the best way to share files between linux and windows 7 on a dual/multi boot computer?

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Just got myself a new computer and thinking of how set it up. I have win7 HP and will probably install at least some version of Ubuntu on it shortly to have dual boot. Might come other Linux distros too in the future. I have a 1TB HDD and my question is what's the smartest way to share files on all…

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Easiest thing - A nas network share that will just work in both or a USB pen drive! Apart from that, As Ubuntu can read from NTFS but Windows can't read from EXT2/4 etc. In your setup, I would personally have a 50GB partition for Ubuntu and then you…

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