Re: Converting ext4 to btrfs

2023-05-03 Thread Paul Smith
Thanks, Alex, for your reply. It seems that the safest path is to go for a fresh install of Fedora. Paul On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 11:07 AM Alex Gurenko via users wrote: > > I've forgot to add, that for compression, this, again, works only for newly > created/accesses files only, so after adding c

Re: Converting ext4 to btrfs

2023-05-02 Thread Alex Gurenko via users
I've forgot to add, that for compression, this, again, works only for newly created/accesses files only, so after adding compression to fstab (and reboot), you might want to run a defragmentation `sudo btrfs filesystem defragment -r `. There was a recent article about that too: https://fedoram

Re: Converting ext4 to btrfs

2023-05-02 Thread Alex Gurenko via users
There was an article back in the days of btrfs introduction that described the process: https://fedoramagazine.org/convert-your-filesystem-to-btrfs/ I've used it myself without any issues back then, I would assume it's still safe to do so now. I ran it like this for a few more releases without