ahh the blipvert!
On 19/12/2023 11:50, Philip Rhoades via users wrote:
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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