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submitted 1 year ago by Pharceface@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Potentialy dumb question here, is there any benefit to using btrfs on a non system disk? I'm fairly ignorant on file systems, asfaik btrfs largest benefit is snapshotting, not sure of anyothers.

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[-] Granixo@feddit.cl -3 points 1 year ago

I usually just stick to the standard file system to any OS.

So for Linux that would be ext4.

For external drives i use either FAT32 (the ol' reliable) or exFAT (the fastest for dealing with large files when you set the max allocation unit size AKA 32MB).

[-] falcon15500@lemmy.nine-hells.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So for Linux that would be ext4.

It's worth noting that the default file system varies by distro - there is no 'Linux' default. For example, RHEL et al use XFS as the default.

[-] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I thought RHEL is going with ext4 or btrfs these days. I know Fedora is on btrfs, while Debian & Ubuntu is on ext4.

[-] talos_the_true_god@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Fedora’s gone the btrfs route, RHEL has all but given up on btrfs, pushing xfs

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