BACKGROUND:
I am using LIBREELEC 11.0.6 on a Raspberry Pi 5, using a 256GB microSDXC. I have put several MP3s and MP4s in the relevant directories for playing via Kody to my TV. There's probably about 100GB or media loaded. That all works fine.
When I power down the RPi/Kodi and then insert the microSDXC into an SD reader on a Linux system I see that there is a small partition formatted FAT with the the Operating System (and Kodi files?), and a big partition which is formatted as EXT4, and the media files are all in there.
Windows is not able to read/write EXT4 partitions, so when I insert the microSDXC and open it on Windows 11 via a microSD port I can see the base operating fines and an overlay directory which are formatted (they are in a partition formatted as a FAT). The media files, which are the majority of data on the SD card are not visible to Windows. When I run the Windows Disk Management utility, I see the card's 512MB FAT allocation which is shown as "Heal-thy1", "Primary" and "Active". The Windows Disk Manager can see that there is also has a 237.9GB allocation which is "Heal-thy1", "Primary" but not "Active". The Windows disk manager only allows me to "Delete" the partition, it can't be made "Active" and can't be allocated a Drive letter, for example "G:". [BTW: this is scenario also applied to the same 256GB microSDXC when I had it formatted up for my Raspberry Pi 4 with Kodi with LIBREELEC 11.0.?]
My Question:
Is there a way when setting up LibreELEC for the Pi to have it allocate the large partition as NTFS or exFAT, instead of as EXT4, so that it can be read directly in Windows.
[BTW: I realize I can get at the media files using FTP, Samba, SSH, etc. I'm just wondering it there is a way to make them directly available to Windows when inserted in a local SD slot.]
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