If you’ve ever dual booted a system or tried to load a hard drive formatted for use by one OS into a machine running another, you may have noticed the discrepancies in compatibility. Why can Linux read Windows disks but the reverse isn’t true?

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问题

超级用户想知道为什么他不能轻松地交换磁盘：

I dual booted my Windows XP, installing Linux Mint. I found out that when using Linux Mint, I could see and open files installed on Windows XP, but when using Windows XP, I can’t see and open files installed on Linux Mint.

Why is that?

Why does Linux recognize Windows but not the other way ’round?

为什么呢？如果两个操作系统都不读取相反的系统磁盘，我们可以将其视为基本的不兼容性。

答案

SuperUser contributor对兼容性的业务原因（对于Linux）和兼容性问题（对于Windows）提供了以下见解：

Linux gains users by being compatible with windows since most people switch TO linux and have data on NTFS/FAT drives. Microsoft has no reason to add Linux file system support since most of it’s users don’t use Linux files ystems and it wants people to use it’s files ystems.

JW8对Linux文件系统兼容性的解决方案提供了更详细的解释：

Windows only natively supports the NTFS and FAT (several flavors) file systems (for hard drives/magnetic systems) and CDFS and UDF for optical media, per this article.

To access other file systems, additional drivers/software will be required. As an example, the Ext2 Installable File System For Windows driver is an open source project that supports the Ext2 system.

有关文件系统的更多信息，请查看文件系统只是一堆文件夹吗？（解释了文件系统）。

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