On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 12:22 AM Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 8:54 AM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreya...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > 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 ? > > Probably not because it'll step on valid bootloader things with stale > copies. If you avoid stepping on anything in: > > /boot > /etc/grub* > It might work... but you'll still have kernels that rpm database says > are installed that aren't installed; you'll have stale boot entries > for kernels that aren't installed and thus won't work. None of it will > get cleaned up on its own. > I will be reinstalling the bootloader also. Even then is it doubtful ? -- Regards, Sreyan Chakravarty
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