Btrfs, but if I'd start from scratch today I'd go for bcachefs.
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Even now?
Yes
ext4 on everything except external drives where I put NTFS.
So you have a dual boot or Windows machines I'm guessing for any of these
- Microsoft Office
- Gaming
- Adobe
I don't dual boot, I just have some other Windows machines that I use rarely for Windows-only software that require an external connection, like Odin for Samsung devices.
- Ext4 main computer
- NTFS for hard drives and stuff that need to be shared with other people using Windows
- BTRFS for the NAS
Interesting choice for NAS, why not the others that seem like better alternatives?
Well, as far as I know, BTRFS and ZFS are the recommended file systems for NAS's. They have self-healing capabilities so I can be slightly more sure that my data does not get corrupted over time.
Is self-healing process automated or you need to somehow enable it so it happens from time to time?
You have to run a so-called scrub command that checks for errors and tries to repair them. You can automate to run it every month or so
In a cronjob or something alike?
Yup
Btrfs because it sounded cool when I first read about it and worked fine so far :3
Yeah it sounds "better" FS. Do you use snapshots?
Yep, got Timeshift hooked up to make a snapshot each time I update my system and I can boot into them via GRUB. Haven't needed that so far, thankfully, but it's there just in case.
dual boot NixOS and FreeBSD on a single drive, ext4 on Nix and ZFS on FreeBSD. each partition has its own boot, swap and root, all encrypted
btw, OP wrote that FAT32 is limited, isn't it the default fs for the boot partition? can other fs like ext2/3 be used?
I use BTRFS on my Artix system, Ext4 on my Librem 5, Ext4 on my Devuan laptop and Ext4 on my Pinebook Pro. Basically when given the choice in the installer I choose BTRFS but if the installer doesn't let me pick I don't care enough to manually partition. I have had no negative experiences with any file system luckily so I just roll with whatever.
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