On Mon, 2020-11-02 at 08:19 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan writes: > > > I'd normally upgrade, but my /dev/sda uses LVM to handle root, /home > > etc. and from what I read this cannot be converted directly to BTRFS, > > which I'm interested in using. > > > > What would be the best way to approach this?: > > > > 1) Do a system upgrade and then convert to BTRFS by backing everything > > up and restoring it (I'd need guidance on how to do this). > > > > 2) Do a complete system install and then restore from backups. > > > > I'm guessing that (2) is the simplest answer, but I'd appreciate any > > comments, especially from people who have actually done either of > > these. > > If you're set on this kind of a disruption, a clean install, followed by > restoring your home directory from backups, will be more reliable. > Attempting to do /full/ reinstall of the /entire/ system from backups is a > much more complicated affair. Your backup/restore method must correctly not > just reinstall files and set their ownership and permissions, but also all > other extended attributes, specifically selinux contexts. I'm not aware of > anything in Fedora that uses other extended attributes for something, but > there may be. > > This is less of an issue when restoring just your home directory from > backups.
That makes sense, thanks. I will also need to restore some things in /etc of course, but that can be done manually. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
