On 12/19/13 2:13 AM, Dan Egli wrote:
Wouldn't Gnu Partition Editor (gparted) have a better ability to convert the FS? Or does it not support experimental file systems? I haven't tried it in years, but last time I did, I recall no problems at all converting a storage drive from Fat32 to EXT3 (this well predates ext4, even in experimental stages) using gparted. And when I looked at that site, I didn't see anything that looked to me like it could handle Btrfs anyway. It didn't even seem to have been updated in over eight years! For crying out loud, it still says you should be using a 2.4 kernel. Even as out of touch as I am I know there's 2.6 kernels, and I think there are 3.x kernels now (I seem to recall hearing of them on the list). I'm not sure a program that hasn't been updated since 2005 (at least that's the most recent update on the project home page above) would be a good idea for trying to convert from Btrfs.:)
It's not a filesystem-specific tool, so there's no need to keep updating it for new filesystems. It needs at least a certain kernel level, but as you pointed out, that should be an easy requirement to meet these days.
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