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
Btrfs in a luks container so it’s encrypted.
Great! Have you had any issues with this setup?
nope, it works really well, for more than a year now, this is my work PC using 8h/day, I’m using MX23 AHS version. Directly in the setup you can select encryption and btrfs volume etc. btrfs is pretty stable.