Re: [CentOS] BTRFS to ext4

2021-07-05 Thread Jon Pruente
On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 5:48 AM Gionatan Danti wrote: > Both options seems reasonable to me. > If choosing to use the same machine, I would not expand the existing > disk; rather I suggest adding a *new* disk to VM (formatting it with > EXT4). > IMO, creating a new disk also leaves you the safety

Re: [CentOS] BTRFS to ext4

2021-07-03 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 2021-07-02 20:26 Christopher Wensink ha scritto: What steps would you go through to migrate the file systems over? Would you set up a duplicate VM and rsync data over?  Expand the capacity of the existing VM, add a new partition then move data over from one partition to another from within the

[CentOS] BTRFS to ext4

2021-07-02 Thread Christopher Wensink
Hello Everyone, We have two virtual machines running CentOS 7, one for file sharing and one for email.  Both base Filesystems run BTRFS.  I need to convert both filesystems over from BTRFS to ext4. Both guest VM's are in a vmware environment on the same server.  The file server has 2.8 TB of

Re: [CentOS] btrfs to ext4

2021-01-19 Thread Strahil Nikolov via CentOS
Does anyone know if it's possible to convert BTRFS partitions to > ext4? > I think that you can convert ext to btrfs , but not the opposite. The cleanest way is to reinstall . Best Regards, Strahil Nikolov ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org htt

[CentOS] btrfs to ext4

2021-01-19 Thread Christopher Wensink
Hello CentOS Gurus, I have just learned that our backup system natively supports restoring vmware VM individual files from a vmware based backup for ext3,ext4 file systems but not BTRFS and some of our VM's run BTRFS as the root file system. Does anyone know if it's possible to convert BTRFS