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Installing EndeavourOS, should I use btrfs or ext4? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 12 points 2 days 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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago

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