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 😃

  • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    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)

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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      11 months ago

      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.

      • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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        11 months ago

        NTFS can handle Linux permissions perfectly. In fact, many Linux filesystems lack the kind of permissions that NTFS does support, not the other way around. FAT doesn’t do permissions, but NTFS has supported decent (“extended” for Linux filesystems) permissions since the mid 90s, i believe even since before Linux even existed.

        The NTFS driver on Linux isn’t very good or fast, so I’d avoid NTFS for a system drive for sure, but as a filesystem, NTFS is fine. It also doesn’t help that many distros don’t ship the modern NTFS driver in the kernel, so booting off NTFS doesn’t work in many cases.