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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by rutrum@lm.paradisus.day to c/linux@lemmy.ml

You know, ZFS, ButterFS (btrfs...its actually "better" right?), and I'm sure more.

I think I have ext4 on my home computer I installed ubuntu on 5 years ago. How does the choice of file system play a role? Is that old hat now? Surely something like ext4 has its place.

I see a lot of talk around filesystems but Ive never found a great resource that distiguishes them at a level that assumes I dont know much. Can anyone give some insight on how file systems work and why these new filesystems, that appear to be highlights and selling points in most distros, are better than older ones?

Edit: and since we are talking about filesystems, it might be nice to describe or mention how concepts like RAID or LUKS are related.

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[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Do you know how I could split my default /var/home/user into /var/home/user/.var, /var/home/user/Torrents and the rest?

Think that would be great for use with btrbk, when I find out how to use that.

Damn BTRFS and btrbk need an easy GUI, I have the feeling its great for backups

[-] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There's no GUI, but following the wiki pages on BTRFS subvolumes you should be able to make a subvolume for those with like 2 simple commands (take a look at the man page for BTRFS subvolumes as well)

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