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what is the best file system for a game drive? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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just added a second cheap NVMe drive to my system and am in the process of moving my games folder to it. the folder has a coupla prefixes and individual game folders. presently it's ext4, my boot drive is btrfs and encrypted LVM, the ext4 drive gets mounted to ~/Games via fstab.

is there a better combination? like, would I benefit from CoW or compression for this use case? or even going with ntfs?

edit: went with btrfs. super easy to convert from ext4, just unmount the 2nd drive, btrfs-convert and change the UUID in fstab. also added the compress=zstd:1 option. looks like everything is working thus far.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

right, forgot about deduping, that is a huge factor!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yup, it's great! I know btrfs not supporting case folding can be an issue with some games but I personally haven't encountered any so it works for me. Can always come up with a spare ext4 partition with it on if I absolutely need it at some point, I guess.