Can I convert an existing directory into a subvolume?

2014-04-15 Thread Bob Williams
Hi, I'm new to btrfs, just dipping my toes in the water... I've got two partitions, / on /dev/sda2 and /home on /dev/sda3, both formatted as btrfs in a new openSUSE 13.1 installation. I copied the whole of /home (4 users) into the btrfs formatted /home partition from an ext4 backup. I would

Re: Can I convert an existing directory into a subvolume?

2014-04-15 Thread Hugo Mills
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 02:10:54PM +0100, Bob Williams wrote: Hi, I'm new to btrfs, just dipping my toes in the water... I've got two partitions, / on /dev/sda2 and /home on /dev/sda3, both formatted as btrfs in a new openSUSE 13.1 installation. I copied the whole of /home (4 users) into

Re: Can I convert an existing directory into a subvolume?

2014-04-15 Thread Bob Williams
On 15/04/14 15:16, Hugo Mills wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 02:10:54PM +0100, Bob Williams wrote: Hi, I'm new to btrfs, just dipping my toes in the water... I've got two partitions, / on /dev/sda2 and /home on /dev/sda3, both formatted as btrfs in a new openSUSE 13.1 installation. I copied

Re: Can I convert an existing directory into a subvolume?

2014-04-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Apr 15, 2014, at 7:10 AM, Bob Williams li...@barrowhillfarm.org.uk wrote: Hi, I'm new to btrfs, just dipping my toes in the water... I've got two partitions, / on /dev/sda2 and /home on /dev/sda3, both formatted as btrfs in a new openSUSE 13.1 installation. I copied the whole of