Linux file system woes

As I told you last time you were trying to do filesystem work on Microsoft Windows:

Microsoft Windows after 41 years in development supports just a handful of filesystem types; Linux supports around ten times more despite being 9 years younger. Linux needs more advanced filesystems than can be used on Windows - and greatly benefits from journaling, which Windows supports only in strangely incompatible ways - so you really wouldn’t even want to use Linux filesystems from Windows if you somehow could in the first place. WSL is a notable exception.

Windows’ poor filesystem support is due primarily to the business not caring, because NTFS has been “good enough” for the last quarter century. Within the system it is due to the tools used for filesystem administration being woefully out of date and not very good to begin with. It is really like trying to mow a lawn with a chainsaw; technically you can do it some of the time, but if there’s some non-grass object Microsoft didn’t predict like a weed or baseball, dirt and wreckage will get strewn everywhere; Windows auto-mounts drives like a toddler putting everything in their mouth, so it immediately breaks Windows-incompatible NTFS and FAT filesystems if a user dares to put them within biting distance, and because its tooling can’t handle slightly unusual partitioning or filesystem tables, it often can’t even massage drives back into shape when it does bork them.