Which File System Should I Use for Linux?

Ext4 is the preferred and most widely used Linux file System. In certain Special case XFS and ReiserFS are used.

Which is better NTFS or Ext4?

NTFS is ideal for internal drives, while Ext4 is generally ideal for flash drives. Ext4 filesystems are complete journaling filesystems and do not need defragmentation utilities to be run on them like FAT32 and NTFS. … Ext4 is backward-compatible with ext3 and ext2, making it possible to mount ext3 and ext2 as ext4.

Should I use XFS or Ext4?

For anything with higher capability, XFS tends to be faster. … In general, Ext3 or Ext4 is better if an application uses a single read/write thread and small files, while XFS shines when an application uses multiple read/write threads and bigger files.