Is NTFS3 reliable enough for a 4TB external drive on a Raspberry Pi?
I have a 4TB NTFS external hard drive connected to a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB of RAM, running Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm. It currently uses NTFS-3G and…
Linux filesystems
Is NTFS3 reliable enough for a 4TB external drive on a Raspberry Pi?
I have a 4TB NTFS external hard drive connected to a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2GB of RAM, running Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm. Reformatting it as ext4 is…
Why does Fedora use FAT32, ext4, and Btrfs for different boot partitions?
I'm trying to understand why Linux offers so many filesystems and what their practical use cases are. My Fedora KDE installation created three different filesystems: /boot/efi as FAT32,…
Why does Fedora use FAT32, ext4, and Btrfs for different boot and system partitions?
I'm trying to understand why Linux installations use several different filesystems. On my Fedora KDE system, the installer created /boot/efi as FAT32, /boot as ext4, and the root…
Can I safely convert an existing ext4 boot drive to Btrfs?
I installed Kubuntu 26.04 using the default ext4 filesystem, but I'm considering switching the system drive to Btrfs for features such as snapshots and built-in deduplication. I've found…
Can I convert an NTFS game drive to BTRFS without erasing it?
I installed Bazzite on one drive and use a second drive for my files and Steam library. However, games stored on the NTFS drive will not launch properly.…
How are you safely reclaiming space after expanding Linux filesystems?
I'm looking for a sanity check from other Linux administrators. We have several data-heavy services running on cloud instances and bare-metal systems. During a patching and cleanup window,…