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How easy/hard is it to set up a 3 part scheme where your personal files live on their own partition that can be accessed from macOS or Linux?


You don't want to do that. MacOS support for any modern filesystem (i.e. not crappy exFAT) that is not its blessed proprietary format, is likely to be bad or non-existent - at which point you have to install some shaky extension from a third party... The chances for anything to go Very Wrong are high. It's even worse than with Windows.

The best way to share files with a proprietary system is to go through some sort of network, i.e. NAS, smb, etc.


That's just bad advice. You can mount HFS+ from Linux just fine.


It's APFS by default for the last few versions of macOS, though, right?


Yes, but HFS+ is fully supported read/write for a mount.


Correct, it is APFS since 10.12 or 10.13 (so, 6 or 7 macOS versions/years).


This is completely wrong. ZFS works very well via O3X [0]. I ran my home folder off of ZFS on various Mac Pros for ~11 years. ZFS works well in Linux and FreeBSD as well.

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0: https://openzfsonosx.org/


It should be fairly easy. Just pick a filesystem that both macOS and Linux can read/write to and format a partition accordingly (the Asahi installer won't make this third partition for you, but it should be pretty easy to figure out).

If I was going to go that route, on my MacBook which is 1TB, I would probably do something like 200GB for macOS, 200GB for Linux and then a shared partition of the rest (~600GB). I'd probably make the shared partition ExFAT, or possibly un-journaled HSF+.

I think the easiest way would be to install Asahi first, pick the size you want for it (200GB in my example), then once you have that sorted, figure out how to create another partition that you will format as ExFAT/HSF+/Whatever you want. I'm sure this is possible/easiest from the macOS side of things, although I have never partitioned a drive in macOS. The Asahi installer does it from the command line in macOS, so I'm sure Disk Utility has the ability to resize and create partitions, too.




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