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

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

[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

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

[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