Just to add, if you do it with another type of partition like ext4, btrfs or any other that Windows does not support natively then the files will work in Ubuntu but not in Windows. If you need to switch your drive to a different filesystem, follow the instructions on our guide Changing the USB Filesystem.Since Windows systems support FAT32 and NTFS "out of the box" (And only those two for your case) and Linux supports a whole range of them including FAT32 and NTFS, it is highly recommended to format the partition or disk you want to share in either FAT32 or NTFS, but since FAT32 has a file size limit of 4.2 GB, if you happen to work with huge files, then it is better you use NTFS. The filesystem is displayed in the dialog that pops up:.Right-click on the drive in question, and choose Properties from the resulting menu:.Make sure the drive is connected to your PC and shows up under My Computer or This PC:.To identify the filesystem used by a drive is fairly straightforward: While NTFS is almost always the filesystem uses for local drives (notably the main C:\ drive for the Windows installation), USB disks and external hard drives can be formatted in FAT32, NTFS, or even exFat. The two primary filesystems in use in the Windows world are FAT32 and NTFS.
There are a number of different formats that can be used, depending on the purpose and platform – for example, Windows PCs use one format while Macs and iPhones use another. While when you browse the contents of a disk, CD, or USB, you see files and folders, that information must be encoded into a sequence of zeros and ones in order to be stored on a physical disk. This guide will show you how to identify the current filesystem used by your device. Many guides for creating a bootable USB, such as those used to run PC recovery software or to update the system BIOS or install Windows require that the USB stick to be used is first formatted as FAT32.
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