I’ve recently performed my switch to NixOS but I do have a question about filesystems; I’ve got 3 drives, 1 NVME which I’m using for NixOS, 1 HDD as a data drive, 1 SSD for Steam games and another HDD for Steam games which don’t need quite as fast a disk. The Steam drives are formatted as EXT4 as I had problems with Steam when they were XFS drives. My big question really is which filesystem I should use for my data drive. It’s mainly for keeping things handy so I don’t need all my music and pictures in my /home folder.
Has anyone had a better experience with XFS or EXT4 on NixOS? Which filesystem should I choose?
Thanks all
I’m using f2fs almost everywhere except /boot. I use ext4 on my Librem 5 to be able to have / and /boot on the same filesystem.
I’ve never used xfs. That said, I don’t think it really matters which filesystems you choose as they are all decent these days when it comes to performance or reliability.
I have not had recent experience of XFS or EXT4. I use ZFS for everything from raspberry Pi (on separate HDD, not SD cards) for all aspects except boot.
It can take a little while to understand the concepts, but I find it simple to use, logical commands, and very robust. It just works! Steam is fine with ZFS in my experience.