On Wed, 2021-03-31 at 21:17 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 31/03/2021 19:49, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I currently have a pair of external drives configured as ext4 with > > RAID1 using mdadm, and mainly used for backup. My / and /home > > filesystems are now BTRFS so I'm looking at converting the external > > drives to BTRFS with RAID1. My main reason is to take advantage of > > BTRFS checksumming as a guard against bitrot, but I'd also like the > > flexibility of setting up subvolumes with different properties (the > > disks are currently 90% empty). > > > > Any thoughts on this? What would be the simplest conversion > > strategy if > > I go ahead? > > Just a thought.... If the drives are 90% empty and used mainly for > backup and there > is sufficient space on the local storage for the remainder I'd take > the path of least resistance. > > I'd copy the "non-backedup" stuff to local storage and then blow the > rest away and > create the raid/btrfs volumes from scratch. After that is done, move > the stuff back > and do a backup. I'm lazy. And if possible, I'd rather not do > something I'm unlikely to > have to do again in the future. :-) :-) Yes, pretty much what I had in mind. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
