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Ext4 is the preferred and most widely used Linux file System. In certain Special case XFS and ReiserFS are used. Btrfs is still used in experimental environment.
Does Linux use NTFS or FAT32?
Portability
| File System | Windows XP | Ubuntu Linux |
|---|---|---|
| NTFS | Yes | Yes |
| FAT32 | Yes | Yes |
| exFAT | Yes | Yes (with ExFAT packages) |
| HFS+ | No | Yes |
What filesystem does Linux use?
The majority of modern Linux distributions default to the ext4 filesystem, just as previous Linux distributions defaulted to ext3, ext2, and—if you go back far enough—ext.
