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I have windows 10 on my main SSD, but space is limited. I'm fine for the time being but will need extra space some time in the future.

I am looking at dual booting with linux soon, so want to purchase a new HDD. If I assign the entire HDD to linux, would I be able to access that HDD for file storage whilst using Windows on the SSD? I could store things on that HDD that I dont use often (like photos I rarely look at, for example).

Alternatively, I could partition the HDD, use one partition for the linux boot and the rest for my cold storage, but if I an do it without I would prefer that.

pingu2k4
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Accessin a "Linux" partition from Windows is challenging. Have a look at How to read ext4 partitions on Windows? on how to read the typical Linux partition.

If I were doing this, I might be inclined to partition the Linux install in such a way that it does not use LVM, has a relatively small (10-30gig) root partition, with the rest blank. I'd then create another partition formatted as VFAT or NTFS and mount it on /home as this will be visible in both Windows and Linux.

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