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Installing EndeavourOS, should I use btrfs or ext4? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by sbeak@sopuli.xyz to c/linux@programming.dev
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edit 2: Found a video by "SpaceRex" on the differences between BTRFS and EXT4, super helpful! He explained it quite well...

edit: It seems that there isn't much difference between btrfs and ext4 aside from additional features of btrfs, which although I might not need right now, there doesn't seem to be any harm in using btrfs over ext4, so I will be using btrfs.

Which would be better? Fedora shipped with btrfs, does it have any additional features that are good (quick search shows compression, subvolumes, and snapshots as main selling points for btrfs, but are there any downsides?

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

These days there isn't really any reason to avoid btrfs. It's stable, and has a lot of nice features.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

Agreed. Even if you don't need the features right now, you might in the future. Also, using snapshots as a filesystem level time machine is nice and I highly recommend them. There's Snapper and Timeshift.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh no, internet people are disagreeing!

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I will say, if you're a newbie, then btrfs has one big benefit, especially when combined with Grub or Limine as your boot loader, and that is the ability to just roll back to a previous snapshot when something breaks.

Playing with things and breaking things as you learn is a lot less of a hassle when you can simply roll back your system to where it was yesterday, instead of having to re-install it from scratch

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

~~wait should I use systemd-boot (default in EndeavourOS) or grub bootloader?~~

edit: After a quick search, it looks like it doesn't really matter. I will go with systemd-boot

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No no no. That won't work with btrfs snapshots if you've had a kernel upgrade. Choose grub from those two

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz -4 points 1 day ago

well too late for than I guess. It's fine though