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 () 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 UFS11993Windows NT 3.1NTFS 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 VFAT2000SUSE Linux Enterprise 6.4ReiserFS 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 3.12006SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 openSUSE 10.2ext3 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 ext4 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 XFS 2014 CentOS 7 XFS 2015 Windows 10 NTFS 3.1 2015 Fedora 22Combination: ext4 (Fedora Workstation and Cloud), XFS (Fedora Server)2015openSUSE 42.1Combination: 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) 2021 Windows 11 NTFS 3.1 2021 Rocky Linux 8 XFS 2021 AlmaLinux 8 XFS2024openSUSE Leap 15.6Btrfs
See also List of file systems Comparison of file systems List of partition IDs (MBR) Master Boot Record (MBR) GUID Partition Table (GPT) Apple Partition Map Amiga Rigid Disk Block Timeline of DOS operating systems History of Microsoft Windows FDISK
References