Filesystems

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This page collects information about file systems working natively under MorphOS. In addition to these, Amiga 68k file systems can be used too (example).

Disk File Systems

Name	Location	Bootable	Native File Properties	Max File Name Length	Max Partition Size	Max File Size	Notes
Smart File System (SFS)	Built-in (boot.img)	Yes	Yes	107	128 GiB	2 GiB - 2 bytes	The default file system
Professional File System III (PFS3)	Built-in (boot.img)	Yes	Yes	107	104 GiB	2 GiB	Legacy support for PFS2 and AFS1
Fast File System 2 (FFS)	Built-in (boot.img)	Yes	Yes	107	2 TiB to 128 TiB	4 GiB - 2 bytes	Legacy support for OFS and FFS
FAT File System (FAT)	Built-in (boot.img)	Yes	No	255* (UCS-2)	2 TiB	4 GiB	Supports FAT12, FAT16, and FAT32 with LFN
Mac File System (HFS)	Built-in (L:)	No	No	31	2 TiB	2 GiB
Hierarchical File System (HFS+)	Built-in (L:)	No	No	255* (UTF-16)	2 TiB**	2 TiB**	Read-only
Second Extended File System (ext2, ext3, ext4)	Built-in (L:)	No	No	255*	2 TiB	16 GiB to 2 TiB	Limited read-only support for ext4
NT File System (NTFS)	Built-in (L:)	No	No	255*	2 TiB**	2 TiB**	Read-only
SGI X File System (XFS)	Built-in (L:)	No	No	255*	2 TiB**	2 TiB**	Read-only
Ice File System (IceFS)	3rd party (link)	Yes/No	Yes	107 (255)	9 EB	9 EB	Bootable on Pegasos/Efika, but not on Macs
ExFAT File System (ExFAT)	3rd party (link)	No	No	255 UTF-16	128 PiB	128 PiB
NT File System 3G (NTFS-3G)	3rd party (link)	No	No	255	16 EiB	16 EiB	Can't be placed on RDB
CDRive File System (CDFS)	Built-in (boot.img)	Yes	Yes				ISO 9660/Amiga Rock Ridge/Joliet, audio as WAV files, ISO file support

* Filenames over 107 characters will be stripped

** Theoretical sizes may be bigger, but filesystems using deviceio.library are limited to 2 TiB

Network File Systems

Name	Location	Native File Properties	Notes
SmbFS	Built-in (C:)	No	For mounting Windows shares or Samba shares on other platforms
NetFS Revised	3rd party (link)	Yes	For mounting partitions between MorphOS and/or AmigaOS systems