I have two drives in my machine, nvme and a sata. Nvme is my root partition and it is set to btrfs, because I love snapshots, they are just a must for me. The sata is my home partition and it is on ext4. Ext4 and is tried and true and I don't want to risk losing my personal files.
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I like btrfs cause of transparent compression but I'm pretty sure other filesystems like ZFS have that too
Hi all. Apologies to hijack this thread. Figured it should be OK since it's also on the topic of file systems.
Long story short, I need to reinstall Nobara OS and I plan to install Nobara on my smaller SSD drive with btrfs and set my /home folder to my larger nvme. I'm thinking of using ext4 for my /home and have snapshots of the main system stored on the nvme. Looking for a sanity check to see if this is OK or if I should be doing things differently. Thanks.
ext4.
Never used arch; just slackware and then enterprise linux.
For both my home server and desktop I use XFS for root and ZFS (in some variety of raid or mirror) for /home and data storage. Any time I've tried btrfs for root (such as default fedora), inevitably it poops the bed. At this point, I stay far away from btrfs.
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For what? Client on a laptop or PC? Why not f2fs? On a server just trust good ol ext4 with some flash drive settings.
it would be for a PC and normal work/home use
My current setup is fedora for the last 6 months. I started a live session, installed f2fs and then run the installer with a combination of f2fs + encryption. And it runs flawlessly and faster than any setup before.