On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 11:35 PM Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 10:38 AM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreya...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > BTRFS is not working out for me.
> >
> > What will be the easiest way to move to EXT4 ?
> >
> > I am on Fedora 33.
> >
> > Please note I also want to backup my root filesystem and not just my
> home.
> >
>
> I think if you ask 10 people you'll get 10 different answers.
>
> The easiest to *explain* is:
> * backup /home
> * clean install the OS using Custom partitioning's "LVM" preset
> partitioning scheme
> * restore /home from backup
>
> And that's because the installer does a lot of work you otherwise have
> to do manually: creates and assembles the new setup, writes out the
> correct bootloader and fstab information, etc.
>
> If you know how to do these things manually already, then that path is
> probably easier than a clean install, and having to reinstall some
> things and adjust settings. Explaining all that in detail is tedious,
> but maybe someone knows of a guide how to do all that.
>
> But this process is the same whether the source is btrfs, xfs or
> already ext4 and you need to migrate it to new file systems/layout.
>

A reinstall is not exactly what I am looking for.

A reinstall will mean that I have reinstall all my applications like Zoom,
Vim, etc.

Is there any way I can restore my root partition also ?

-- 
Regards,
Sreyan Chakravarty
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