I’m planning on doing a fresh install of 12.1 reformating all but the /home, is it possible to convert ext format to brtfs? I’m real interested in the snapshot capability which is a godsend in the netapp world.
On 2011-11-18 23:56, dwellen wrote:
> is it possible to convert ext format to brtfs?
Certainly not!
You can not convert any format to any other format, except ext2->ext3->ext4.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
It is possible:
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/articles/c/o/n/Conversion_from_Ext3_6e03.html
Just remember that you need a separate /boot partition because GRUB Legacy can’t boot from BTRFS.
Slipion81 beat me to it. I was reading about this in-place conversion yesterday and found it interesting.
On 2011-11-19 00:26, Silpion81 wrote:
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> It is possible:
> http://tinyurl.com/cyt4lr2
Interesting. First time I see a filesystem conversion tool like that.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
I like the idea of keeping a dedicated /boot partition, I know it wasn’t necessary using a modern Linux but it has it’s uses still like large md raid devices etc.
On 2011-11-19 01:26, dwellen wrote:
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> I like the idea of keeping a dedicated /boot partition, I know it wasn’t
> necessary using a modern Linux but it has it’s uses still like large md
> raid devices etc.
It is necessary if your root filesystem is btrfs, because legacy grub does
not support it.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)