Re: Change root partition filesystem without reinstall

2021-08-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2021-08-01 at 19:46 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jul 2021, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > > I am trying to change my root partition from BTRFS to EXT4, but I > > am > > looking for ways to do it without a full reinstall of the OS. > > Reboot to a liveCD or something. > cp -r

Re: Change root partition filesystem without reinstall

2021-08-01 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Sat, 31 Jul 2021, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: I am trying to change my root partition from BTRFS to EXT4, but I am looking for ways to do it without a full reinstall of the OS. Reboot to a liveCD or something. cp -r the BTRFS filesystem to an EXT4 filesystem in a partition, preferably of the

Re: Change root partition filesystem without reinstall

2021-08-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 7/31/21 1:16 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: Hi, I am trying to change my root partition from BTRFS to EXT4, but I am looking for ways to do it without a full reinstall of the OS. Any suggestions? In theory any Linux installation can be copied over to a new partitions and work. Best way is

Change root partition filesystem without reinstall

2021-07-31 Thread Sreyan Chakravarty
Hi, I am trying to change my root partition from BTRFS to EXT4, but I am looking for ways to do it without a full reinstall of the OS. Any suggestions? Has anyone had any luck with tools like fsarchiver ? -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty ___ users mail