Re: Cloning a BTRFS filesystem

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On Sun, Jul 28, 2024 at 4:59 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2024-07-28 at 03:09 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 7:25 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
> > <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a new NVMe drive and want to clone my existing SSD which
> > > currently holds /, /home and a swapfile, all as subvolumes. I know
> > > I
> > > can do this using btrfs-send/receive, but only one subvolume at a
> > > time
> > > and with plenty of potential for fat-fingering it.
> > >
> > > Using dd is another option (the old and new drives are both 2TB)
> > > but of
> > > course that would copy UUIDs and could get the kernel in a tizzy.
> > >
> > > There's a 'btrfs-clone' tool on GitHub:
> > >
> > > https://www.aligrant.com/web/blog/2019-02-27_copying_a_btrfs_volume_to_another_disk_the_easy_way
> > >
> > > but it's not in any Fedora repo so I'm slightly nervous.
> > >
> > > Any recommendations?
> >
> > It looks like Fedora updated btrfs-progs tonight. This arrived during
> > a `dnf update`:
> >
> >     btrfs-progs    x86_64    6.9.2-1.fc40
>
> I just ran 'dnf update' and am not seeing that. Perhaps it's in the
> test repo?

It looks like it is in both stable and testing:
<https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/btrfs-progs/btrfs-progs/index.html>.

Jeff
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