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If you are dual-booting your system with Windows, at some point you may want to share files between the two operating systems. Fortunately, the Linux kernel provides full read/write support for FAT32 and the older FAT filesystems. Full NTFS read-only support is natively available in the kernel as well, along with a small (almost useless) write support. Full write support for NTFS is available using the ntfs-3g userspace read-write driver. Install guide. As ntfs3g is "stable" now, that software is recommended over the kernel version.
Many hardware flash drives (included in digital cameras, mp3 players, for example) format their partitions with the VFAT filesystem, and this guide will apply to those who want to access their data on those devices as well.
If you are interested in formatting your partitions to one of the FAT filesytems, mkfs.vfat and mkfs.msdos are available in the dosfstools package.
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