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List of default file systems

Default file system used in various operating systems.

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Default file system used in various operating systems.

Release year Operating system File system
1968 George 3 George 3
1971 OS/8 DECtape / OS/8
1972 RSX-11 ODS-1
1974 CP/M CP/M file system
1980 86-DOS FAT12, but logically format incompatible with MS-DOS/PC DOS.
1981 PC DOS 1.0 FAT12
1982 MS-DOS 1.25 FAT12
1982 Commodore 64, 1541 Commodore DOS (CBM DOS)
1984 PC DOS 3.0, MS-DOS 3.0 FAT16
1984 Classic Mac OS Macintosh File System (MFS)
1985 Atari TOS Modified FAT12
1985 Classic Mac OS Hierarchical File System (HFS)
1987 Compaq MS-DOS 3.31 FAT16B
1988 AmigaOS v1.3 Amiga Fast File System (FFS)
1989 OS/2 v1.2 High Performance File System (HPFS)
1989 SCO UNIX HTFS
1990 Windows 3.0, 3.1x FAT16B
1993 Slackware ext2
1993 Debian GNU/Linux ext2
1993 FreeBSD v1-v5.0 UFS1
1993 Windows NT 3.1 NTFS 1.0
1994 Windows NT 3.5 NTFS 1.1
1995 Windows 95 FAT16B with VFAT
1996 Windows NT 4.0 NTFS 1.2
1998 Mac OS 8.1, macOS HFS Plus (HFS+)
1998 Windows 98 FAT32 with VFAT
2000 SUSE Linux Enterprise 6.4 ReiserFS12
2000 Windows Me FAT32 with VFAT
2000 Windows 2000 NTFS 3.0
2000 Ututo GNU/Linux ext4
2000 Knoppix ext3
2000 Red Hat Linux ext3
2001 Windows XP NTFS 3.1 but FAT32 was also common
2002 Arch Linux ext4
2002 Gentoo Linux ext4
2003 FreeBSD v5.1-v9 UFS2
2003 Windows Server 2003 NTFS 3.1
2003 Fedora Core 1 ext3
2004 Ubuntu 4.10 ext3
2004 OpenWrt OverlayFS combining SquashFS + JFFS2
2004 CentOS 3 ext3
2005 Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 ext3
2005 dyne SquashFS
2006 OpenDOS 7.01.08 FAT32+
2006 gNewSense ext4
2006 Windows Vista NTFS 3.1
2006 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

openSUSE 10.2

ext334
2007 Slackware 12 ext3
2007 Trisquel ext4
2008 Windows Server 2008 NTFS 3.1
2008 Musix GNU+Linux ext4
2008 Nexenta OS ZFS
2009 Windows 7 NTFS 3.1
2009 Parabola GNU/Linux-libre ext4
2009 openSUSE 11 ext4
2009 Slackware 13 ext4
2009 Ubuntu 9.10 ext4
2009 Fedora 11 ext45
2010 LibreWRT SquashFS
2011 CentOS 6 ext4
2011 Debian GNU/kFreeBSD UFS1
2011 Arch Hurd ext2
2012 Windows 8 NTFS 3.1
2013 Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 ext4
2013 Debian GNU/Hurd ext2
2014 libreCMC OverlayFS combining SquashFS + JFFS2
2014 RHEL 7 XFS6
2014 CentOS 7 XFS
2015 Windows 10 NTFS 3.1
2015 Fedora 22 Combination: ext4 (Fedora Workstation and Cloud), XFS (Fedora Server)7
2015 openSUSE 42.1 Combination: Btrfs (for system) and XFS (for home)
2016 iOS 10.3 APFS
2017 macOS High Sierra (10.13) APFS
2020 Fedora 33 Btrfs (Fedora Workstation)8
2021 Windows 11 NTFS 3.1
2021 Rocky Linux 8 XFS
2021 AlmaLinux 8 XFS
2024 openSUSE Leap 15.6 Btrfs9
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References

References

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