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Mounting a partition on both OS X and ubuntu

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I'll be reinstalling OS X on my MacBook and I would like to use both ubuntu and OSX. can I make 3 partitions, one for each OS and the third for /home and mount the /home partition on both OS-es?
Is there any better way to do it? I want to keep everything as clean and tidy as possible.

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answered 2 Years ago elopingapo · Accepted Answer

It is not a good idea to use a home partition to be used by both operating systems. There are permissions problem in the first place, and also solving these, Ubuntu does not support writing to HFS+ filesystem and MacOSX does not support writing on EXT4 filesystem.

What you can do is create a shared partition with a filesystem supported in both reading and writing , such as NTFS, and use that partition to exchange data between the two operating systems.