People,
I have been using Fedora since Core 1 and still have the old HDs and I
have kept using ext[234] FSs just for simplicity / consistency up to the
current time (F39) - but now I want to experiment with btrfs and I was
thinking I could go through the exercise of converting an old SATA boot
drive where I am still using /dev/sdd5 (the old /home partition) as one
of a few backup partitions / drives for current live data from my
workstation and some small servers.
At first I was thinking I could delete ext4 parts 1-4, replace them with
a new btrfs partition and then maybe somehow use btrfs-convert to
integrate the remaining ext4 part 5 into the new part 1? . . but what I
really want to do is create a new btrfs using the _whole_ of the disk -
but somehow avoid having to spend a LONG time copying back about 4TB (to
the 8TB drive) - the only way I could see that possibility working is to
somehow do a recovery on the rest of the disk after the newly-created
btrfs only takes up part of the beginning of the disk but leaves the old
ext4 dirs and files recoverable somehow from near the beginning of the
disk to just past halfway on the disk . .
This is just an interesting idea for experimenting with - it is not the
end of the world if it is not possible or if it might be possible but
difficult and I crash the drive in the experiment . .
Any feedback / comments from HD gurus appreciated!
Thanks,
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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