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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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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've found it much easier and way more reliable. If I pull out the power on ext4 it is likely to cause corruption and sometimes you can't fix it.

Btrfs is pretty much impossible to completely corrupt. I've had drives fail and I didn't lose anything

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 26 points 6 months ago

Lemme say this - While complex, I can vouch for recovering files on BTRFS. I can't vouch for recovering files on ext4, because I never had to.