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What file systems are you using on your devices and why? (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 3 months ago by Psyhackological@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I want to learn more about file systems from the practical point of view so I know what to expect, how to approach them and what experience positive or negative you had / have.

I found this wikipedia's comparison but I want your hands-on views.

For now my mental list is

NTFS - for some reason TVs on USB love these and also Windows + Linux can read and write this
Ext4 - solid fs with journaling but Linux specific
Btrfs - some modern fs with snapshot capability, Linux specific
xfs - servers really like these as they are performant, Linux specific
FAT32 - limited but recognizable everywhere
exFAT - like FAT32 but less recognizable and less limited

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[–] unn@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Btrfs, but if I'd start from scratch today I'd go for bcachefs.

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even now?

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

NTFS for the drive I had before jumping to Mint. Currently reporting several hundred gigabytes free, but refusing to make any new files, because... I don't know. I'll deal with it after an upcoming move.

The OS / home SSD is ext4, and so is the fat loud hard disk I recently purchased through an entire month of fighting Amazon over gift cards.

[–] wazzupdog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Depends on the device and the use case, mostly FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, EXT4

[–] sgibson5150 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Random thoughts, no particular order

I think btrfs was the default the last time I installed Bazzite, but I don't really know anything about it so I switched it to ext4. I understand the snapshot ability is nice with rolling release distros, though.

It'd been ages since I'd used FAT32 for anything until I made a Debian live USB when I was setting up my pi-hole on an old Core2Duo recently. It would only boot on FAT32 for reasons I probably once knew. 😆

NTFS was an improvement over the FATs what with the journaling, security, file streams, etc. I use it wherever I still use Windows (work).

Most of my general purpose USB flash drives use exFAT. I like not having to worry about eject/unmount.

[–] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure.

Bazzite defaults to btrfs and yeah this distro with rolling back changes is on another level.

Well you probably used it if you had any brand new USB as it's the default. I'm trying to flash my USBs for now with exFAT or NTFS...