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I have an external harddrive, which has a partition of NTFS and 300 GB of unallocated space. Is it possible to use that unallocated space to create a paartition on Macos? The disk utility doesn't let me add a new partition. Is it because Macos can't work with drives that contain a NTFS partition?

On the same hardrive, with LinuxMint 20.3, I can't create exfat partition but I can create FAT32 on unallocated space along with existing NTFS. As, exfat got added into the newer kernel which I don't have in my latest LinuxMint, is it possible to create an exfat partition along with ntfs, these days on new linux kernel based OS such as Ubuntu 22.04?

Secondly, Is it possible to create exfat along with NTFS on a same drive? Or, Is it possible to create APFS and exfat on the same drive?

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    Windows does not support formatting a disk with APFS nor does it have native support for it.
    – Ramhound
    Commented May 15, 2022 at 23:01
  • To enlarge on @Ramhound's comment, there are third-party tools that can access APFS partitions: intowindows.com/3-ways-to-open-apfs-drives-in-windows-10 . That said, I've found writing to non-native file systems risky. As for exFAT, though I don't suggest purposely using that file system, the fuse package can enable Linux to read and write to it: systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/8-mount.exfat-fuse
    – DrMoishe Pippik
    Commented May 16, 2022 at 3:25
  • @Ramhound So if a disk has APFS has one of its partition, with some unallocated space or some other Partition, Windows can't access any of it? (without using third party tools that act as a bridge between these Filesystem and native Filesystem)
    – Porcupine
    Commented May 16, 2022 at 4:43
  • @DrMoishePippik I was using Gparted, and my drive has an existing NTFS Partition. I wanted to create exfat Partition on remaining unallocated space. But gparted did not let me choose exfat, when I way trying to use that unallocated space into a new partitions
    – Porcupine
    Commented May 16, 2022 at 4:48
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    Run diskutil list in terminal & add the relevant section to your question [select & hit Ctrl/K to format it for SE]
    – Tetsujin
    Commented May 16, 2022 at 9:05

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