List of default file systems - wikipedia List of default file systems 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 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 ) Compaq MS - DOS 3.31 FAT16B AmigaOS v1. 3 Amiga Fast File System ( FFS ) 1989 OS / 2 v1. 2 High Performance File System ( HPFS ) 1989 SCO UNIX HTFS Windows 3.0 / 3.1 x FAT16B 1993 Slackware ext2 1993 Debian GNU / Linux ext2 1993 FreeBSD v1 - v5. 0 UFS1 Windows NT 3.5 NTFS 1995 Windows 95 FAT16B with VFAT Windows NT 4.0 NTFS 1998 Mac OS 8.1 / macOS HFS Plus ( HFS+ ) 1998 Windows 98 FAT32 with VFAT 2000 SUSE Linux Enterprise 6.4 ReiserFS 2000 Windows Me FAT32 with VFAT 2000 Windows 2000 NTFS 2000 Ututo GNU / Linux ext4 2000 Knoppix ext3 2000 RHEL ext3 Windows XP NTFS but FAT32 was also common 2002 Arch Linux ext4 2002 Gentoo Linux ext4 2003 FreeBSD v5. 1 - v9 UFS2 2003 Windows Server 2003 NTFS 2003 Fedora core ext3 Ubuntu 4.10 ext3 OpenWrt OverlayFS combining SquashFS + JFFS2 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 2006 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 openSUSE 10.2 ext3 2007 Slackware 12 ext3 2007 Trisquel ext4 2008 Windows Server 2008 NTFS 2008 Musix GNU / Linux ext4 2008 Nexenta OS ZFS 2009 Windows 7 NTFS 2009 Parabola GNU / Linux ext4 2009 openSUSE 11 ext4 2009 Slackware 13 ext4 2009 Ubuntu 9.10 ext4 LibreWRT SquashFS 2011 Fedora 16 Btrfs 2011 CentOS 6 ext4 2011 Debian GNU / kFreeBSD UFS1 2011 Arch Hurd ext2 2012 Windows 8 NTFS 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 2015 OpenSUSE 42.1 Combination : Btrfs ( for system ) and XFS ( for home ). 2016 iOS 10.3 APFS 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 Jump up ^ `` Archive : SuSE Linux 6.4 ''. openSUSE wiki. Retrieved 2017 - 06 - 28. Jump up ^ `` SUSE LINUX 9.1 Administration Guide : Major File Systems in Linux ''. Novell. Retrieved 2017 - 06 - 28. Jump up ^ Shankland, Stephen ( 16 October 2006 ). `` Novell makes file storage software shift ''. CNET. Jump up ^ Sharma, Mayank ( 12 October 2006 ). `` Novell will switch from ReiserFS to ext3 ''. Linux.com. File systems Comparison of file systems distributed Unix filesystem Disk ADFS AdvFS Amiga FFS Amiga OFS APFS AthFS BFS Be File System Boot File System Btrfs CVFS CXFS DFS EFS Encrypting File System Extent File System Episode ext ext2 ext3 ext3cow ext4 FAT exFAT Files - 11 Fossil HAMMER HFS HFS+ HPFS HTFS IBM General Parallel File System JFS LFS MFS Macintosh File System TiVo Media File System MINIX NetWare File System Next3 NILFS NILFS2 NSS NTFS OneFS PFS QFS QNX4FS ReFS ReiserFS Reiser4 Reliance Reliance Nitro RFS SFS SNFS Soup ( Apple ) Tux3 UBIFS UFS VxFS WAFL Xiafs XFS Xsan zFS ZFS Optical disc HSF ISO 9660 ISO 13490 UDF Flash memory and SSD APFS FAT exFAT CHFS TFAT FFS2 F2FS HPFS JFFS JFFS2 JFS LogFS NILFS NILFS2 NVFS YAFFS UBIFS Distributed CXFS GFS2 Google File System OCFS2 OrangeFS PVFS QFS Xsan more... NAS AFS ( OpenAFS ) AFP Coda DFS GPFS Google File System Lustre NCP NFS POHMELFS Hadoop SMB ( CIFS ) SSHFS more... Specialized Aufs AXFS Boot File System CDfs Compact Disc File System cramfs Davfs2 FTPFS FUSE GmailFS Lnfs LTFS NOVA MVFS SquashFS UMSDOS OverlayFS UnionFS WBFS Pseudo and virtual configfs devfs debugfs kernfs procfs specfs sysfs tmpfs WinFS Encrypted eCryptfs EncFS EFS Rubberhose SSHFS ZFS Types Clustered Global Grid Self - certifying Flash Journaling Log - structured Object Record - oriented Semantic Steganographic Synthetic Versioning Features Case preservation Copy - on - write Data deduplication Data scrubbing Execute in place Extent File attribute Extended file attributes File change log Fork Links Hard Symbolic Access control Access control list Filesystem - level encryption Permissions Modes Sticky bit Interfaces File manager File system API Installable File System Virtual file system Lists Cryptographic Default Log - structured Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_default_file_systems&oldid=787971482 '' Categories : Computer file systems Computing - related lists Talk About Wikipedia 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 28 June 2017, at 18 : 01. 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Question: which file system type is the default for windows operating systems
Answer: NTFS