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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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] 5 points 1 year ago

XFS. It fills the same role as ext4 but it's less likely to lose your data and that's probably the most important part of a file system. Not that ext4 is bad or anything, but XFS is good. The only downside to XFS is you can't shrink the filesystem size.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Uff, somehow missed your post. See mine. That's the FS I'm hoping to use next. I'm waiting for it to support swapfile, or alternatively read from official sources they won't ever support it, :). But yes, that's the one I'm looking forward to use.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well since so many people recommend btrfs because "it have never lost any data for me". I want to suggest OP to never use btrfs ever. Because it has lost my data, at least three separate times, the most recent time a week ago. And it's not because of a power loss or anything, it just corrupted my files for absolutely no reason at all.

Stay away from btrfs at all costs.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"It's never lost data for me. Yet" is what they mean.

I totally agree, the only file system I've lost data with as a result of a file system corruption not caused by hardware errors or power problems in 35 years has been btrfs. FAT even served me better.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I always go LVM + BTRFS these days. I simply love the versatility.

EDIT: DO NOT DO THIS LMAO, JUST USE BTRFS, I AM SO STUPID

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm curious, why do you use LVM with BTRFS and not just use BTRFS built in subvolumes?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Because I'm stupid and like to run my partitions across multiple drives. 😅

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I use f2fs on ssd's and ext4 on hdd's

I don't see the need for snapshots, I backup externally

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

SSDs* HDDs*

f2fs does one of the weirdest things with compression by default: the files are compressed but they still take up the same amount of blocks as the uncompressed files. This can get you the slight performance boost of compressed files, but doesn’t actually save you space which is an odd choice. You can enable a flag in the kernel but it has other effects as well.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've always used XFS on spinning drives and F2FS on SSDs. No issues, they're very solid

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I like btrfs but only cause it got transparent compression. I don't need the extra disk space and it only helps a bit but I just think it's neat

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you're on spinning rust with a modern CPU, compression actually helps your read/write speeds quite a bit. It's faster for the CPU to compress/decompress then read/write less data because hard drives are so slow in comparison.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

FS is for nubz, do these instead:

Read

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/stdout

Write

dd if=/dev/stdin of=/dev/sda
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I used ext4 for yeeeeaaaarrssss but now I'm using LUKS+btrfs, stable, encrypted.

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