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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Btrfs is cool because it supports snapshots, if you don’t plan on using these, just go with ext4

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I don’t use snapshots but i love the compression.

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Not just snapshots. Also compression and CoW.

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Umm correct if um wrong but cant you make a snapshot of ant file system

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Sure, but btrfs has some built-in tools for this and makes it pretty easy

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