🗄 File Systems

File Systems Overview

Name Partition size (min/max) Cluster size (min/max) File Max Size fstab code FAT16 16Mb/2Gb 2Kb/32Kb FAT32 32 KB (officially), 512 bytes (unofficially)- 2Tb 🔍 512b - 32Kb/64Kb (for large volumes) NTFS 1.

FAT

NTFS

APFS

APFS APM and APFS seem to be unable to live together. APFS requires GUID. I have come to that conclusion when I tried formating the drive with a APM and then APFS with DiskUtility.

ExtX

2 No journaling 3 Same but + journaling 4 New FS

HFS and HFS+

HFS HFS+ Since 1998, since macOS 8.1. Was replaced by APFS. Didn’t natively support full disk encryption (FV2 was added later).

ReiserFS

Allows storing multiple files in a single sector. exclamation mark ❗️Unique to this FS!

XFS

Good for multimedia files.