Ich wollte heute eine alte 500GB Festplatte als Musikspeicher für möglichst alle #Betriebssysteme formatieren. Stellt sich mal wieder raus: #FAT32 und #NTFS sind immer noch ungeeignet.
Jede Menge "Sonderzeichen", wie z.B. "?" im Dateinamen werfen Fehler und die Dateien werden nicht gespeichert.
Tjo nun, dann nehm ich eben wieder #Ext4. #Linux kommt damit klar, #MacOS glaube ich auch. Wenn ich die Platte mal an einem #Windows anschließe und sie nicht gelesen werden kann - Pech gehabt.

so, for an SSD: #ext4 or #btrfs?

(by this point i know that btrfs is not as suitable for HDD storage, because it doesn't have a way to detect and avoid "bad blocks") #linux

Your EXT4 filesystem will be speedier on Linux 6.16!

#EXT4 #Linux #Kernel #LinuxKernel #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/linux-6-16-yields-improved-ext4-performance/

BtrFS completely sucks & i shall never again make the error of using it instead of ext4.

So, I'm currently installing WSL in an attempt to get Windows 11 to view various ext4 filesystems, as I do a lot of stuff with Rasperry Pi machines. This feels...kinda wrong. I hope it works though. I know just enough to be dangerous, but not enough to be a true expert.

#Debian question: my systems are all using the... not-non-user-hostile... defaults of encrypted LVM partitions, so I have ~250MB of /boot with #ext4. My / is #XFS so I can't move /boot. I have closed #nvidia drivers via #dkms, maybe that matters.

I used to be able to juggle two kernels, one installed, one to be installed. That fails now, I am stuck.

Are there any good and modern docs on reducing #linux #kernel footprint in /boot?

I can find old stuff, empty stuff, and whataboutism, no docs...

@neil @ai6yr @restic I'd say an external #SATA-SSD in an enclosure with #brtfs or "journalless #ext4" works fine.

• Maybe consider a cheap multi-port case with #HDDs and using #dmraid for #RAID-based failsafe?

Been reading up a bit trying to decide which file system I want to use when I redo my home server soon. Think I'm leaning towards giving btrfs a go. Curious what the splits are on fedi. I've only ever used ext4 on Linux. I'm guessing for desktop/home server use, xfs isn't very popular. Just including it here since it's in this article.

#Linux #FileSystems #EXT4 #BTRFS #ZFS #XFS

https://blog.usro.net/2024/10/linux-file-systems-comparison/

Apparently BTRFS is eating away 400 MB of RAM over ext4 for caching. On a 4 GB machine, that's sending you to swap a lot. I decided to reinstall Linux with ext4.

**I converted my gaming PC from BTRFS to EXT4 and this happened:** (I'm not even kidding)

Steam startup issues fixed
Wine startup issues fixed
Weird system freezes gone
Vastly improved storage performance
System feels 100x more responsive

I used to be a huge fan of BTRFS, but *boy* does it feel good to be back on EXT4. I guess new isn't always better.

I wonder why #debian did not pull the kernel deb package 6.1.64-1 with the #ext4 corruption bug from the package repositories. Countless of systems were upgraded to to buggy version as a result. Is there some technical reason why this could not be done? https://www.debian.org/News/2023/2023120902

Debian/Linux users beware:

Due to an issue in ext4 with data corruption in kernel 6.1.64-1, we are a pausing the 12.3 image release for today while we attend to fixes. Please do not update any systems at this time, we urge caution for users with UnattendeUpgrades configured.

Please see bug #1057843:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843

I was looking for a way to read and write #ext4 formatted SD card from my #RaspberryPI on #macOS. Messed up my home network setup, and needed to edit a DHCP config file to resolve an issue - long story.

I came across a StackOverflow answer that suggested using #UTM app with a Linux #VM to access the card through a USB card reader.

Imagine my surprise when this solution worked immediately with zero friction or additional setup needed!

I currently have an external HDD connected to a #RasPi4 that I use as a #NAS

Back when I started doing this (on a RasPi 2?) there were lots of bottlenecks, like the USB2 ports and 100MBit Ethernet connection

TIL that today the biggest bottleneck is the file system on the HDD: I'm using NTFS (because back then the HDD with #NTFS was the only thing I had, and it didn't make a difference) with ~35MB/s write speeds

With #EXT4 I should get the full GBit the LAN connection can handle