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It's A Digital Disease!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/GoodPrimordialSoup on 2025-06-04 19:12:11.

I have a 14 TB external hard drive with partitions for dumping data from Windows, MacOS, and Linux each. I'd like to merge those partitions and use the drive across all devices but the cons of ExFAT seem to outweigh the pros, so...

Let's say I bite the bullet and get whatever software is needed to guarantee interoperability -- Mac can read-write NTFS, Windows can read-write APFS and HFS+, everyone gets ext or brtfs, whatever. Afterwards, I wipe the hard drive clean and format it to any of those options.

Has anyone here done something like this before? Is this feasible at all and if so, which system would you use for a hard drive? Which one would require the least amount of admin pre-merge? HFS+ and EXT4 seem the most forgiving in terms of naming and acceptable file sizes but I'm wondering if I didn't account for something that could bite me in the ass later.

Thanks in advance!

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