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

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And LVM is more than good enough for occasional snapshots before a major upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What's lvm like compared to btrfs?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Well lvm makes a shit filesystem and btrfs is useless at volume management.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

LVM creates "block devices" and is FS agnostic. You can install btrfs on an LVM volume if you wanted. Or any other FS for that matter.

But since it doesn't know anything about the FS it can be a bit more cumbersome to modify volumes (especially when shrinking).