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My home Network is run by Lenox. My wife will give a friend and new USB flash drive, to save a word processing work she is doing for her. Her friend has a Windows PC therefore the ubs flash drive, will be formatted to NTFS. Later when my wife brings back that USB flash drive, would she be able to read it in her Linux laptop? Or should I format this flash drive to a Linux file system? But then a friend with a Windows PC will not be able to do anything. What is the best way to walk around this issue.

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    NTFS read and write support are currently supported in Ubuntu out-the-box. What is your Ubuntu version?
    – N0rbert
    Sep 21, 2018 at 19:39
  • Who/what is "Lenox"?
    – waltinator
    Sep 21, 2018 at 19:40
  • What does your home network have to do with this?
    – wjandrea
    Sep 21, 2018 at 19:43
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    NTFS read/write is supported in LInux, and has been for years. NTFS drives work fine. However, your core question is extremely unclear, and it is not clear what exactly you are asking.
    – Thomas Ward
    Sep 21, 2018 at 19:51
  • Possible duplicate of What filesystem for an external Harddrive (Linux/Mac/Windows)
    – karel
    Sep 22, 2018 at 6:08

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You can mount a NTFS filesystem in Linux without problems. Just insert the USB into your computer, and the disk will be available in the left pane of the file manager (Files / Nautilus).

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