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What file systems are you using on your devices and why?

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
Darkassassin07 ,
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca avatar

I wish I’d actually chosen a file system instead of just letting window’s at the time default to NTFS for external drives.

Moving from Windows to Debian; NTFS has been nothing but a headache. I’ve actually had to setup a windows machine to serve that drive pool via SAMBA as Linux just won’t play nicely with it.

falkerie71 ,
@falkerie71@sh.itjust.works avatar

Every photocopy machine I’ve come across that accept USB sticks do not support exFAT, so what I would do with my USB stick is to split it into two partitions, one FAT32 and the rest exFAT.

cmnybo ,

Most of my drives are EXT4, but I started using BTRFS a couple years ago and will be using it on all new installs from now on. I really like being able to make snapshots and compression reduces the install size quite a bit.

ampersandcastles ,

My regular computer is ext4.

I assume my raspberry pi is ext4, but I’ve never checked what DietPi runs as default. It works fine.

My 720xd is ext4 on the OS drives, but the storage drives are ZFS with dual parity.

wazzupdog ,

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

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