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submitted 3 months ago by Psyhackological@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I want to learn more about file systems from the practical point of view so I know what to expect, how to approach them and what experience positive or negative you had / have.

I found this wikipedia's comparison but I want your hands-on views.

For now my mental list is

  • NTFS - for some reason TVs on USB love these and also Windows + Linux can read and write this
  • Ext4 - solid fs with journaling but Linux specific
  • Btrfs - some modern fs with snapshot capability, Linux specific
  • xfs - servers really like these as they are performant, Linux specific
  • FAT32 - limited but recognizable everywhere
  • exFAT - like FAT32 but less recognizable and less limited
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[-] mayidar@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

I'm curious now about BTRFS.

How do you roll back in case of problems?

[-] mayidar@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

https://discovery.endeavouros.com/encrypted-installation/btrfs-with-timeshift-snapshots-on-the-grub-menu/2022/02/

Basically, I just followed this tutorial for my EndeavourOS installations. It's as easy as choosing an older entry in GRUB. Fedora offers something similar by default, and I think Tumbleweed does too.

Moreover I'm now playing with Arkane Linux (https://arkanelinux.org/), immutable flavour of Arch, it features another magic with btrfs and rollbacks without snapshots and GRUB

[-] Zikeji@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Bookmarking Arkane. I'm a huge fan of Fedora Atomic but miss AUR.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Oh ok cool! I'm going to check it out.

I'm taking a lot of notes for my next install. Trying to build something solid with Kubuntu.

[-] Kualk@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Take snapshot. If problem occurs, manually change boot label to use snapshot label.

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