Default File System For Linux?

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Hello everyone. I will soon be installing Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon 64-bit on my desktop. I was wondering, if I have a blank HDD that I am installing Linux Mint to, and I just go through the normal installation procedure, what will be the default file system used for the HDD? Will it be ext4? If not, how can I easily change it to use ext4? I am aware that you can create separate partitions for your root and home directories, and in doing that, you can change the file system to ext4, but I am not wanting to have to deal with figuring out what size I want to make my root partition. I wish to keep the simplicity of the default installation (not the actual installation process, but the simplicity of using the system after Linux Mint is installed), but use the ext4 file system. Any help will be much appreciated!
 
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Usually EXT4, if you're not doing an advanced install.

If you want to do an advanced install, but keep the partition structure as normal, make one big partition the whole drive and mount it as "/" (minus the quotes). You may also want to add a swap partition about the same size as your RAM.
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Usually EXT4, if you're not doing an advanced install.

If you want to do an advanced install, but keep the partition structure as normal, make one big partition the whole drive and mount it as "/" (minus the quotes). You may also want to add a swap partition about the same size as your RAM.
 
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And if I just make one big "/" partition (plus the swap partition which I will probably make), that partition will automatically have the /home directory added?
 
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So, if I manually make my root and swap partitions, do I want them to be Primary or Logical partitions?
 
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So, now I feel as if my efforts have been wasted. I had to add "nomodeset" to get Mint to boot from the USB key. Now that I have it installed to my HDD, it wont boot. Not even if I add "nomodeset" in the grub menu. All I get is the Linux Mint boot screen with the 4 loading dots, and then a black screen... Any ideas?
 
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I've done everything that I have found and I still end up with a black screen. i am running an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780. Is there any sort of either recovery mode or compatibility mode that I can run it to just download the NVIDIA drivers to see if that will fix the problem?
 
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That took a TON of research and tinkering. Too much for my taste, but I still got it fixed any way. Finally! I now just have a few little quirks with Mint, like the fact that whenever I right click and click Organize Desktop by Name, it sends all of my icons to my secondary monitor. I can't find a fix for that, and I somewhat doubt I will. Unless you can help me with that small problem, thanks for all of your help! ;)
 
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