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As long as you partition it with - say Linux (during installation) you can format the other partition with the other OS installation. You do not need to prepare it in advance before your first installation, I think.

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Sure, but if I wish to use the same partition for both OSes. The question is more about what format can serve as a general storage format that is safe/acceptable enough and can be accesses/used from different OSes ?

This is a little out of my knowledge so I will leave my two cents but hopefully someone with a better idea can opine.

I think ExFat format is supported by Linux, OSX and Windows.

Alternatively, if you are doing this to copy files back and forth, there is also the option of using scp.

FYI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus#Linux

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