On Sun, 2021-08-01 at 19:46 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Sat, 31 Jul 2021, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > > I am trying to change my root partition from BTRFS to EXT4, but I > > am > > looking for ways to do it without a full reinstall of the OS. > > Reboot to a liveCD or something. > cp -r the BTRFS filesystem to an EXT4 filesystem in a partition, > preferably of the same size. > Save the label and UUID of the BTRFS filesystem. > Edit ...ext4/etc/fstab so that / will have the correct filesystem > type. > I think this is the only place needed. > Anyone know for sure? > Copy the new partition to take the place of the old one. > Restore the label and UUID that were saved. > Reboot At some point you have to actually create the new ext4 fs (mkfs). 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
