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 | ReiserFS[1][2] |
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 | ext3[3][4] |
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 | ext4 |
2009 | openSUSE 11 | ext4 |
2009 | Slackware 13 | ext4 |
2009 | Ubuntu 9.10 | ext4 |
2009 | Fedora 11 | ext4[5] |
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[6] |
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 |
2019 | RHEL 8 | XFS[8] |
2020 | Fedora 33 | Btrfs (Fedora Workstation)[9] |
2021 | Windows 11 | NTFS 3.1 |