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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
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.

kbal ,
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ext4, but the btrfs activity visible in the kernel changelog has slowed down recently after a long period of many bug fixes, so maybe I'll give it a try next time.

thingsiplay ,

same

wazzupdog ,

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

scottmeme ,

ZFS, got 5 system with different zpools

avidamoeba ,
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On root?

ryannathans ,

Mine is

avidamoeba ,
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Manual setup?

ryannathans ,

I’m on freebsd, it’s the default out of box/installer

avidamoeba ,
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Nice.

scottmeme ,

I do have 1 system with ZFS mirror boot drives

avidamoeba ,
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Did you use an installer to do it or manual setup?

scottmeme ,

Proxmox install on the zfs mirror boot plus some other pools, everything else is currently truenas single boot drive with pools

I do have other proxmox stuff running zfs*

Nithanim ,

I started using it on my NAS and also on root. Then I switched my personal machine to ZFS on root. I manually created both setups (somehow). This is the worst part in my opinion. The best decision, though, was to ditch grub in favor of zfsbootmenu. Skips all the brittle steps with grub and its boot partition. Now I just have zfsbootmenu directly loaded by UEFI from the EFI partition. Everything important is directly on ZFS, including… well, everything. Can also use snapshots but I have not needed that yet.

voracread ,

I tried exFAT for my USB stick but car sterio cannot read it.

Psyhackological OP ,
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Yeah that’s weird when I read about exFAT it seemed like same compability but no FAT32’s limitations but in practice that wasn’t the case.

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