On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 8:54 AM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreyan32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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 ? 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. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ 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
