Re: Easiest way to move from BTRFS to EXT4 without losing data

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 2:42 AM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreyan32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On Tue, 15 Jun 2021, 1:27 am Garry T. Williams, <gtwilliams@xxxxxxxxx> 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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