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 😃

  • 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.