Supporting Operating Systems
| File system | DOS | Windows 9x | Windows NT | Linux | Mac OS | Mac OS X | FreeBSD | BeOS | Solaris | AIX | z/OS | OS/2 | Windows CE | Windows Mobile | VxWorks | HP-UX |
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| FAT12 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Partial on diskettes only, through dos* commands | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown |
| FAT16 | Yes since DOS 3.0, FAT16B since DOS 3.31 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial on diskettes only, through dos* commands | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown |
| FAT32 | Yes since DOS 7.1 | Yes since Windows 95 OSR2 | Yes since Windows 2000 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial on diskettes only, through dos* commands | Unknown | with third-party app | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown |
| exFAT | No | Partial read-only with third party driver | Yes : Win7, Vista SP1, can be added to XP SP2 | with third party driver | No | Yes 10.6.5+ | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | Unknown | Unknown |
| NTFS | with third-party driver | with third-party driver | Yes | Yes Kernel 2.2 or newer, or with NTFS-3G or ntfsprogs | with NTFS-3G or MacFUSE | Partial: read-only (read-write with NTFS-3G) | with NTFS-3G | with NTFS-3G | with NTFS-3G on Opensolaris | Unknown | Unknown | Partial read-only third-party driver | with 3rd-party driver | No | Unknown | Unknown |
| HFS | No | with third-party app | with third-party app | Yes | Yes | Partial: read-only since OSX 10.6 | with third-party app | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | with third-party app | No | No | No | Unknown |
| HFS Plus | No | with third-party app | with third-party app | Partial - write support occurs if journal is empty, but requires a force mount. | Yes since Mac OS 8.1 | Yes | Partial read-only third-party app | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | with third-party app | No | No | No | Unknown |
| HPFS | with third-party driver | Partial read-only third-party driver | included until v3.51, third-party driver until 4.0 | Yes | No | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| FFS | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| UFS1 | No | Unknown | Unknown | Partial - read only | No | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | Unknown |
| UFS2 | No | Unknown | Unknown | Partial - read only | No | No | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | Unknown |
| ext2 | Unknown | Unknown | with Ext2Fsd (complete) or Ext2 IFS (partial, no large inodes) or Ext2Read (read-only, also on LVM2) | Yes | No | with fuse-ext2, ExtFS and ext2fsx | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | third-party app | with 3rd-party app | with 3rd-party app | Unknown | Unknown |
| ext3 | Unknown | Unknown | with Ext2Fsd (complete) or Ext2 IFS (partial, no large inodes) or Ext2Read (read-only, also on LVM2) | Yes | No | with fuse-ext2 and ExtFS | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | with 3rd-party app | with 3rd-party app | Unknown | Unknown |
| ext3cow | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Yes Kernel 2.6.20 | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| ext4 | No | No | with Ext2Fsd (partial, extents limited) or Ext2Read (read-only, also on LVM2) | Yes since kernel 2.6.28 | No | with fuse-ext2 (partial) and ExtFS (full read/write) | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Btrfs | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
| ZFS | No | No | No | with 3rd Party kernel module or FUSE | No | with free 3rd-party software | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Lustre | No | No | Partial - under development | Yes | No | Partial - via FUSE | Partial - via FUSE | No | Partial - under development | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
| GFS | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | No | Unknown | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
| NILFS | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes since kernel 2.6.30 | No | Unknown | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
| ReiserFS | No | Unknown | Partial with third-party app | Yes | No | No | Partial - read only | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | with 3rd-party app | with 3rd-party app | Unknown | Unknown |
| Reiser4 | No | Unknown | Unknown | with a kernel patch | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| OCFS | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | No | Unknown | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
| OCFS2 | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | No | Unknown | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
| Reliance | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Unknown |
| Reliance Nitro | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unknown |
| XFS | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | No | Unknown | Partial | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
| JFS | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Yes | No | No | Unknown | |
| QFS | No | Unknown | Unknown | via client software | No | Unknown | No | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
| BFS | No | Unknown | Unknown | Partial - read-only | No | Unknown | No | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
| NSS | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | with Novell OES2 | No | Unknown | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
| NWFS | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | via ncpfs client software | No | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
| UDF | Unknown | Partial read-only support of UDF 1.02 since Win98 and WinME | Yes | Yes | Yes since Mac OS 9 | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| VxFS | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | No | Unknown | No | Unknown | Yes | Yes | Unknown | Unknown | No | No | Unknown | Yes |
| Fossil | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown |
| IBM HFS | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| IBM zFS | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| IBM GPFS | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| VMFS2 | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | Unknown | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | |
| VMFS3 | No | Unknown | Unknown | Partial read-only with vmfs | Unknown | Unknown | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| DECtape | No | Unknown | Unknown | with AncientFS | No | with AncientFS | with AncientFS | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
| Level-D | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | Unknown | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| RT-11 | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | Unknown | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | No | Yes | Unknown |
| ODS-2 | No | Unknown | Unknown | Partial read-only with tool or kernel module | No | Unknown | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| ODS-5 | No | Unknown | Unknown | Partial read-only with kernel module | No | Unknown | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| LFS | No | Unknown | Unknown | with logfs and others | No | Unknown | No | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
| LTFS | No | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Unknown | Unknown |
| PramFS | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| File system | DOS | Windows 9x | Windows NT | Linux | Mac OS | Mac OS X | FreeBSD | BeOS | Solaris | AIX | z/OS | OS/2 | Windows CE | Windows Mobile | VxWorks | HP-UX |
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