Just a simple question : Which file system do you recommend for Linux? Ext4…?

EDIT : Thanks to everyone who commented, I think I will try btrfs on my root partition and keep ext4 for my home directory 😃

  • Yozul@beehaw.org
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    6 months ago

    Honestly, unless there’s some specific thing you’re looking for just use your distro’s default. If your distro doesn’t have a default I’d probably default to ext4. The way most people use their computers there’s really no noticeable advantage to any of the others, so there’s no reason not to stick with old reliable. If you like to fiddle with things just to see what they can do or have unusual requirements then btrfs or zfs could be worth looking into, but if you have to ask it probably doesn’t matter.

    • catloafEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Agreed, ext4 is a perfectly fine default for the os. Xfs is also a good choice. I have my os on ext4 and data on xfs and I’ve never had issues. My only headache is LVM, because I don’t actually need the additional flexibility it offers. (And mdraid is flaky, but I think that’s because of how I set it up. Maybe you aren’t supposed to use a whole drive, you’re supposed to partition it first?)

      • limelight79
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        6 months ago

        Correct, you want partitions. Some motherboards will helpfully “fix” your partition table when they see that.