Introduction
This article is about filesystems support and might be extended to take into account block device technologies too like LVM,RAID, etc.
Filesystems
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Distributions
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| Dragora
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Dynebolics
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Guix
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Hyperbola
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LibreCMC
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Parabola
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ProteanOS
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PureOS 10 (byzantium)
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Replicant 6.0
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Trisquel 10 (nabia)
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Ututo S
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| btrfs
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| Packages
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Yes: btrfs-progs
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| Guix system[1]
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Yes
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| Installer
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Yes
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| Rootfs
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Yes
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| Packages and manual installation[2]
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Yes: btrfs-progs
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| Graphical installer
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| Rootfs
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Yes
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| Packages and debootstrap installation[2]
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Yes: btrfs-progs
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| Graphical installer
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No
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| Rootfs with the graphical installer
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No
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| exfat
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| Packages
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Yes: exfat-fuse, exfat-utils, exfatprogs
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| Graphical installer
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Yes
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| Rootfs with the graphical installer
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Broken[3]
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| ext4
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| Packages
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Yes: e2fsprogs
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| Guix system[1]
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Yes
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| Installer
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Yes
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| Rootfs
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Yes
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| Packages and manual installation[2]
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Yes: e2fsprogs
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| Rootfs
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Yes
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| Packages and manual installation[2]
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Yes: e2fsprogs
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| Graphical installer
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| Rootfs
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Yes
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| Packages and debootstrap installation[2]
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Yes: e2fsprogs
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| Graphical installer
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Yes
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| Rootfs
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Yes
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| Internal partitions
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Yes
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| Rootfs
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Yes
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| MicroSD card
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No
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| Packages and debootstrap installation[2]
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Yes: e2fsprogs
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| Graphical installer
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| Rootfs
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Yes
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| f2fs
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| Packages
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Yes: f2fs-tools
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| Guix system[1]
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Yes
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| Installer
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No
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| Rootfs
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Yes
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| Packages and manual installation[2]
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Yes: e2fsprogs
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| Graphical installer
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| Rootfs
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Yes
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| Internal partitions
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Yes
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| Rootfs
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?
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| MicroSD card
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No
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| fat
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| Packages
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Yes: dosfstools, mtools
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| Guix system[1]
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Yes
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| Installer
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Yes
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| Rootfs
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No
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| Packages and manual installation[2]
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Yes: dosfstools, mtools
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| Graphical installer
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| Rootfs
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No
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| Packages
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Yes: dosfstools, mtools
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| Graphical installer
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Yes
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| Rootfs with the graphical installer
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Broken[4]
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| Internal partitions
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Yes
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| Rootfs
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No
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| MicroSD card
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Yes
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| hfs
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No[5]
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No[6]
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No[7]
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No[8]
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| hfs+
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No[9]
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No[10]
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No[11]
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No[12]
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| minix
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| Packages
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Yes: util-linux
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| Graphical installer
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Yes
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| Rootfs with the graphical installer
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Broken[13]
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| ntfs
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Implementation
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| kernel
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ntfs-3g
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| Packages
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Yes: ntfs-3g
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| Graphical installer
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No[14]
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Yes
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| Rootfs
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Broken[15]
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Block device layer
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Distributions
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| Dragora
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Dynebolics
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Guix
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Hyperbola
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LibreCMC
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Parabola
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ProteanOS
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PureOS 10 (byzantium)
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Replicant 6.0
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Trisquel 10 (nabia)
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Ututo S
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| LVM2
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References
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↑ 1.01.11.21.3 This tells if that filesystem can be used in a system.scm system definition.
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↑ 2.02.12.22.32.42.52.62.7 Since users simply run commands manually during the manual installation, they can easily use the (packaged) tools to create new filesystems and add them to /etc/fstab for automatic mounting.
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↑ The installation fails with an error.
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↑ The installation fails with an error.
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↑ There is no hfsutils package.
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↑ There is no hfsutils package.
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↑ There is no hfsutils package.
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↑ There is no hfsutils repository in the manifest.
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↑ There is no hfsprogs package.
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↑ There is no hfsprogs package.
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↑ There is no hfsprogs package.
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↑ There is no hfsprogs repository in the manifest.
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↑ The installation fails with an error.
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↑ Once installed, the rootfs is mounted with FUSE and ntfs-3g.
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↑ The installation succeeds, but then sudo and policykit are broken due to wrong permissions. So users can't install any software. It's also a very bad idea to use NTFS since there is at the time of writing no way to safely repair corrupted NTFS filesystems with free software: The only tools we have are in ntfs-3g and they are way too experimental and dangerous so they are probably not shipped by any distribution.
