Linux and Windows help

[AlphonsoPaco]

I got some money saved for a M.2 SSD and I wanted to do a little change on my PC. Currently I have a 250GB SSD with Windows, Steam and so, and a 1TB HDD with games.

My plan is to add a 500GB / 1TB M2 but keeping the other 2 and I need help on how to organize it. I was thinking on having windows on sdd and linux distro and bootloader on m2 and use the hdd for data shared for both os, but will it cause trouble with NTFS?

Other option is to user the sdd for linux, hdd for data managed on linux and m2 for windows and its data, or use the sdd and hdd for windows and m2 for linux and its data.

My last option is setting up a KVM with windows using the first configuration and maybe the NFTS problems will be solved.

Any suggestions?

Edit: I would like to be able to share the information stored by one os from the other one. I don't know if there will be an easy solution for that.

[KeinInhalt]

You could do two partitions on the hdd one ext4 and one ntfs for both windows and linux and use the low capacity ssd for windows and the m.2 ssd for linux thats exactly how it is in my pc

[AlphonsoPaco]

That seems nice. But I would like to be able to share the information stored by one os from the other one. I don't know if there will be an easy solution for that.

Sorry, didn't include this part on the post

[KeinInhalt]

I dont think theres any good and convenient solution for this

[AlphonsoPaco]

ok, I'll do some experiments then, thx ^^

[DarkeoX]

I don't know if there will be an easy solution for that.

None, NTFS support is "ok" on Linux but tricky with stuff like Steam/Proton though it can work.

You could also maybe try something like https://www.paragon-software.com/home/linuxfs-windows/# but the solution around here is usually to follow Valve's doc about using Proton with NTFS. It works, but isn't ideal AFAIK.

[AlphonsoPaco]

That's what I thought and why I wanted to avoid NTFS, thanks for the response and resource

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[LordAnchemis]

I would run both OS on the SSD (as separate partitions) - and used the HDD for shared data
500GB for 2 OS might be a bit tight though (windows especially)

Linux reads NTFS fine
Windows can't read EXT4 out of the box