On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was wondering if there was any way I could convert an ext4 partition > into an xfs partition without copying around files onto a separate > partition and reformatting. The partition in question is my /home on a > volume group of its own. I don't have a real answer except perhaps to create a new LVM for XFS then slowly migrate files from one LVM/fs to the other. As you fill space on one, shrink the other filesystem to reclaim those LPs back into the VG. It's messy but should work. AFAIK, there is no in-place conversion utility as the two filesystems are quite different. > I realised, lately I have been dealing with very large files quite > often. Ranging from few hundred megs to a gig or two. So I decided to > switch to xfs. Do you think its worth the effort? Curios about this though -- what sort of performance are you seeing with ext4 vs XFS? I'm running only a few XFS filesystems but I don't see a huge performance increase versus ext4. My workload is typically small sound files. > Also since we are talking about my /home here, there will also be small > conf/settings files along with the large files. Do you think that would > be disadvantageous somehow? Would it make more sense to shrink my /home > and have a separate xfs partition in the created space for the large files? > > Thanks for any thoughts on this. > > -- > Suvayu > > Open source is the future. It sets us free. > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
