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How two OS shares file information if both are installed on single machine?

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Lets assume that i have 2 OS installed, (Linux and Windows).

Both have different file system and both have different mechanism to read/write files.

Then how both OS Shares file information?

posted Sep 10, 2015 by anonymous

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Suppose you have dual boot one with windows and another is ubuntu. You have a storage partition which is mounted on Ubuntu (you must be installing NTFS on ubuntu) and as well on windows.

Note: NTFS is the file system that the Windows NT or windows based operating system uses for storing and retrieving files on a hard disk.

Now you can make a fair guess data is stored in Windows format where Linux is accessing it in windows way. (I hope I understood your problem correctly)

answer Sep 10, 2015 by Salil Agrawal
Yes, Thanks Sir

But still confused with below sentence,
"You have a storage partition which is mounted on Ubuntu (you must be installing NTFS on ubuntu) and as well on windows."

Does it mean that we have mounted root directory of both OS with each other?
or Does it mean that we are actually installing NTFS on linux?
If it is like that then after that linux will have 2 file-systems?
I mean EXT and NTFS both?
Is it possible sir?
commented Sep 10, 2015 by Chirag Gangdev
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