qweertz (they/she)

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(I also hate capitalism and have a general interest in social sciences)

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  • On Fedora, Btrfs has been the default for years now iirc. It’s modern and rock solid too (as long as you avoid Raid 5/6) and has some features I can’t live without nowadays:

    • Copy-on-write (prevents file duplication)
    • Snapshots (your systems broke? most easy rollback you will ever experience is with Btrfs in combination with Timeshift)
    • on-the-fly compression (I’d recommend “–compression-force=zstd:3” as a mount option. Last I checked Fedora defaulted to using the lowest compression level, which is not the Btrfs default, making you lose some gains. FYI about the “force”: btrfs by default checks whether a file is compressible or not, this is redundant with zstd, which does the same thing but quite a bit faster AFAIK)