share game data between Windows 10 & Ubuntu 16.04

[michaelbr]

Is it possible to share game data between Windows 10 & Ubuntu 16.04? If so, how can I do it? I installed Wesnoth in my D drive and put the game data in the same dir as the installation one.

[Pentarctagon]

Ubuntu should be able to read NTFS without any problem, so you could probably create a link for the Ubuntu Wesnoth that points to the Windows Wesnoth userdata directory. I've never dual booted though, so a guess is the best I can do.

[Ravana]

I dual boot windows 10 and linux mint. Setting up automounted shared folder is not difficult, and later you can just pass the paths to each wesnoth.

Though I decided not to share everything - copying preferences and private addons was enough for me.

/etc/fstab addition with my windows UUID

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UUID=927E533C7E5317F5 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults,windows_names,locale=en_US.utf8  0 0

Use blkid to get your windows UUID.

[michaelbr]

I dual boot windows 10 and linux mint. Setting up automounted shared folder is not difficult, and later you can just pass the paths to each wesnoth.

Though I decided not to share everything - copying preferences and private addons was enough for me.

/etc/fstab addition with my windows UUID

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UUID=927E533C7E5317F5 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults,windows_names,locale=en_US.utf8  0 0

Use blkid to get your windows UUID.

Thanks for your reply Ravana, when you said not to share everything, does it mean that if you're in the middle of a scenario, you can't continue to play in another OS? The code above is just to mount ntfs partition in Linux, right?

[michaelbr]

Ubuntu should be able to read NTFS without any problem, so you could probably create a link for the Ubuntu Wesnoth that points to the Windows Wesnoth userdata directory. I've never dual booted though, so a guess is the best I can do.

Thanks, I'll give it a try, just installed it, but haven't played yet in Ubuntu.

[Ravana]

Yes. Admittedly I dont really play nowadays, I prefer to observe. See wesnoth --userconfig-dir and wesnoth --userdata-dir if you want everything shared.

[michaelbr]

Yes. Admittedly I dont really play nowadays, I prefer to observe. See wesnoth --userconfig-dir and wesnoth --userdata-dir if you want everything shared.

Thanks Ravana for the tip, I'll take a look.