Re: root backup-reformat-restore

2016-11-18 Thread Hugo Mills
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 04:06:22AM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: > On 18.11.2016 02:52, Hugo Mills wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 02:38:25AM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: > >>The FAQ says that "the best solution for small devices (under about > >>16 GB) is to reformat the FS with the --mixed optio

Re: root backup-reformat-restore

2016-11-17 Thread Marcus Sundman
On 18.11.2016 02:52, Hugo Mills wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 02:38:25AM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: The FAQ says that "the best solution for small devices (under about 16 GB) is to reformat the FS with the --mixed option to mkfs.btrfs". OK. Does anyone have any good suggestions for doing tha

Re: root backup-reformat-restore

2016-11-17 Thread Hugo Mills
On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 02:38:25AM +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote: > The FAQ says that "the best solution for small devices (under about > 16 GB) is to reformat the FS with the --mixed option to mkfs.btrfs". > > OK. Does anyone have any good suggestions for doing that with an > existing / partition (

root backup-reformat-restore

2016-11-17 Thread Marcus Sundman
The FAQ says that "the best solution for small devices (under about 16 GB) is to reformat the FS with the --mixed option to mkfs.btrfs". OK. Does anyone have any good suggestions for doing that with an existing / partition (which has special files and whatnot)? I assume a backup-restore cycle