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File System

Reference

Journaling

Reference

Prevent being corrupted

exFAT

  • No journaling
  • Max volume size 128 PiB
  • Max file size 16 EiB
  • No ACL

FAT32

  • No journaling
  • Max volume size 2 TiB (4 KiB Cluster Size)
  • Max file size 4 GiB
  • No ACL

NTFS

  • Journaling
  • Max volume size 16 TiB (4 KiB Cluster Size)
  • Max file size 16 EiB
  • ACL

BTRFS

  • Unstable
  • Copy-on-Write
  • Snapshot
  • RAID
  • Slow

XFS

  • Journaling
  • RedHat
  • Cannot shrinking

ZFS

  • Copy-on-Write
  • Snapshot
  • RAID

Resize file system

Resize ext2 / ext3 / ext4 file system

# Force check file system
e2fsck -f <device>

resize2fs [-M] <device> [<size>[<unit>]]
UnitDescription
-MMinimize size
UnitDescription
s512 byte sectors
K1024
M1024²
G1024³