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Linux doesn't do the drive letter thing. Instead, you have to identify the disks by their partition IDs.
When you install your OS, you'll be able to
mountthe disks to wherever you like. If you want, you can create directories in/mnt, like/mnt/e,/mnt/fetc. Then you can mount your disks according to those letters.The main issue you'll run into is disk format. NTFS will work, but its poorly supported.
To get a better idea of how it works, try passing a USB disk into the VM you've created.
I have used NTFS on my external drives on Linux for longer than I care to admit with absolutely no issue.
As have I, but I wouldn't say its always been no issue. But there have been known performance issues, and filesystem locking issues when dual booting (I know, not OPs concern). I think its worth a warning at least, so OP doesn't go in blind.
It works, but performance suffers for games etc.
My main use case for it is storage, so it makes sense that I never noticed any issues.
They rewrote the in-kernel support for NTFS a while back, and it works much better now. The old driver lacked proper write support and was kind of questionable in general.