GNU Linux Debian8 – What filesystems can be used as root partition?

Basically all filesystems that are compiled into the kernel you are using.

(otherwise it won’t be able to access the /root partition and the whole thing won’t boot)

You can use those listed filesystems to install your linux into it (/root-partition)… but you can not use VFAT-Family(FAT16,FAT32 and probably also not exFAT :-D) Debian8 says. They must know.

• ext2 ( Rémy Card )
• ext3 (Stephen Tweedie)
• ext4

  • Developer(s)	Mingming Cao, Andreas Dilger, Alex Zhuravlev (Tomas), Dave Kleikamp, Theodore Ts’o, Eric Sandeen, Sam Naghshineh, others

• jfs (IBM)
• xfs (Silicon Graphics (SGI)Red Hat)
• btrfs

  • Developer(s)	Facebook, Fujitsu, Fusion-IO, Intel, Linux Foundation, Netgear, Oracle Corporation, Red Hat, STRATO AG, and SUSE[1]

• ReiserFS (by the intelligent criminal that killed his wife Namesys)

you can also NOT use SWAP as root partition 😀 (damn it)

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