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

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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] 15 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Btrfs is cool because it supports snapshots, if you don't plan on using these, just go with ext4

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I don't use snapshots but i love the compression.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Not just snapshots. Also compression and CoW.

[–] joel_feila 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Umm correct if um wrong but cant you make a snapshot of ant file system

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

@joel_feila @Andromxda do you mean any file system?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Sure, but btrfs has some built-in tools for this and makes it pretty easy