PsyhackologicalAug 8, 2024

What file systems are you using on your devices and why?

https://lemmy.ml/post/18929658

What file systems are you using on your devices and why? - Lemmy

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

Show threadmayidarAug 8, 2024
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.
Show threadCyborganismAug 8, 2024

I’m curious now about BTRFS.

How do you roll back in case of problems?

Show threadmayidar

discovery.endeavouros.com/…/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 (arkanelinux.org), immutable flavour of Arch, it features another magic with btrfs and rollbacks without snapshots and GRUB

BTRFS with timeshift snapshots on the grub menu

BTRFS with timeshift snapshots on the grub menu Reviewed corrected and expanded by nick_0189 (october 2023) corrected timeshift not in AUR anymore (joekamprad) It is easy to add backup snapshots wi…

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Show threadZikejiAug 8, 2024
Bookmarking Arkane. I’m a huge fan of Fedora Atomic but miss AUR.
Show threadCyborganismAug 8, 2024

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.