On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 2:42 AM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 15 Jun 2021, 1:27 am Garry T. Williams, <gtwilli...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Monday, June 14, 2021 3:50:57 PM EDT Joe Zeff wrote: >> > On 6/14/21 1:12 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: >> > > I mean if I backup from BTRFS can I restore it into ext4 ? >> > >> > Your backup software neither knows nor cares how your filesystem is >> > formatted, so of course you can. Unless, of course, you're cloning the >> > partition, in which case a restore will overwrite the partition with >> the >> > original formatting. >> >> I'm pretty sure Chris was correct. You system is set up to boot from >> the btrfs file system -- not ext4. Changing the file system will >> result in needed changes in boot loader, fstab, etc. >> >> Restoring to an ext4 file system will not result in a bootable system. >> > > How does this sound? > > I make a complete tar backup of my system. > > Reinstall F33 to ext4. > > Restore that tar, of course fstab and crypttab needs to be corrected. > > > Will this work? Does it make any sense? > So will this work ? Any feedback ? -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty
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