F2FS, because solid state and speed
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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.
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Btrfs for the compression and snapshots
Servers - btrfs. Fewer layers of abstraction, easier to manipulate.
Laptops - ext4. I don't do anything weird with the onboard storage, plus it supports fscrypt.
Flash drives - exFAT. I usually need to access them on multiple platforms and exFAT is about as cross-platform as VFAT (but supports bigger files).
I use Btrfs for my root partition to be able to rollback if something goes wrong after update. XFS: in all other cases, since I hate the lost+found directory on ext4. Although I don't think there's any significant difference between ext4 and xfs in performance and reliability.
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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.
NTFS for the drive I had before jumping to Mint. Currently reporting several hundred gigabytes free, but refusing to make any new files, because... I don't know. I'll deal with it after an upcoming move.
The OS / home SSD is ext4, and so is the fat loud hard disk I recently purchased through an entire month of fighting Amazon over gift cards.
- 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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Depends on the device and the use case, mostly FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, EXT4
Btrfs on my Linux desktops and laptops, ZFS on my server, APFS on my Apple devices I guess