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

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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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[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Ext4 main computer
NTFS for hard drives and stuff that need to be shared with other people using Windows
BTRFS for the NAS

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[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

ext4 on everything except external drives where I put NTFS.

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

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

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[–] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago (5 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.

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

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.

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