4. Filesystem

4.1. Filesystem Support

Zinc includes user-space tools for all common filesystem formats. You can connect and access storage devices that formatted with filesystems like EXFAT or HFS+ without installing any additional packages.

f2fs-tools
exfat-fuse 
fuse2fs
hfsutils hfsprogs
nilfs-tools
reiser4progs reiserfsprogs
xfsprogs 
udftools

GParted and GNOME Disks are included for disk partitioning and formatting.

4.2. NTFS3 driver by default

The in-kernel ntfs3 driver is used by default for mounting NTFS drives, instead of using the fuse-based ntfs-3g driver.

NTFS3 is an in-kernel driver. It has better performance compared to the ntfs-3g driver which runs in user-space.

4.3. BTRFS compression by default

On most distributions, BTRFS filesystems are mounted without compression. The compression has to be enabled manually by adding an entry to the /etc/fstab file, or by specifying the compress= option when running the mount command.

On this distribution, BTRFS devices are always mounted with Zstd compression enabled. The compression can be disabled manually if needed by adding an entry to the /etc/fstab file, or by specifying the compress=none option when running the mount command.