I was told Fat would not work with anything larger then 4mb.
No.The limit is 4Gb.
I also read the option to convert all my files but then I would be converting every time I switched systems...
There never was a need for converting files. You convert your partition; that can be done using gparted and is pretty safe ... but making a backup prior would be wise: it is totally possible to mess it up with 1 wrong click.
Can I share an external drive with dual boot Windows and Linux
Yes, the goto format for this is exFAT. More devices and operating systems support it (Windows, Linux, Mac,Android) than NTFS . exFAT is optimal for flashdrives. NTFS is more for internal hard drives using Windows.
If not already installed you can install support for it with
sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
Manual mounting is as simple as:
sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sdb1 /media/disk1
where sdb1 (1 is partition, b is the 2nd device; so 1 hard dis, and the external is the 2nd one. It will be c if there are 2 other devices etc.) is your device (df -H
or fdisk -l
will show you what it is for your disk) and mountpoint "disk1" needs to be created one time (ie. mkdir /media/disk1
; change the name to what you like but try to avoid special characters).
LF
,^J
, Linefeed) on Linux, (CR
^M
, Carriage Return followed byLF
,^J
, Linefeed),CRLF
on Windows. Common executables? No.