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Which file system do you recommend for Linux? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 😃

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

So i normally go with ext4, however windows can't really access ext4 drives so you'd need to find a file system that both support if you want to access the drive/partition from windows. My drive with all the games is ntfs for example which works in Windows and Linux. (At least for normal storage, idk if you can boot linux from it although i wouldn't see why not)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

NTFS can't handle Linux file permissions. It is not suited as a system drive.

And supposedly it can give you problems if you use it to store your Steam games. I never cared to test that, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It works well enough for my game drive. At least i have yet to encounter any problem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I was always wondering if there could be a small Linux partition for additional information of NTFS partitions, like meta data stored as a separate file (or database). And off course it would need some virtualization layer like WINE does for the file path mapping. Then it would be possible to use NTFS as system drive and for games.

Obviously this would be problematic and performance wouldn't be great either (assuming), and it would complicate things for end user and developers too. But I was always thinking if this would be possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Wsl2 lets windows do ext4

[–] SteveTech 2 points 6 months ago

There's also an open source BTRFS driver for Windows.