Re: Moving top level to a subvolume

2012-06-13 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Arne Jansen sensi...@gmx.net wrote: On 06/08/2012 09:24 PM, Matthew Hawn wrote: I just converted my root filesystem to btrfs with btrfs-convert.  However, since I am running Ubuntu, I would like to have the same subvolume structure as a default install,. How

Re: Moving top level to a subvolume

2012-06-13 Thread Arne Jansen
On 13.06.2012 09:04, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Arne Jansen sensi...@gmx.net wrote: On 06/08/2012 09:24 PM, Matthew Hawn wrote: I just converted my root filesystem to btrfs with btrfs-convert. However, since I am running Ubuntu, I would like to have the same

Re: Moving top level to a subvolume

2012-06-13 Thread Duncan
Fajar A. Nugraha posted on Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:49:47 +0700 as excerpted: As for lose their filesystems, are there recent ones that uses one of the three distros above, and is purely btrfs fault? The ones I can remember (from the post to this list) were broken on earlier kernels, or caused by

Re: Moving top level to a subvolume

2012-06-13 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Arne Jansen sensi...@gmx.net wrote: On 13.06.2012 09:04, C Anthony Risinger wrote: a) have a lot of data b) need to do this via script c) ??? ... because in a), data will *copied* the slow way, and in b) you leave a bunch of junk laying around in the old

Re: Moving top level to a subvolume

2012-06-13 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, C Anthony Risinger anth...@xtfx.me wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Arne Jansen sensi...@gmx.net wrote: On 13.06.2012 09:04, C Anthony Risinger wrote: ... because in a), data will *copied* the slow way What I don't understand is why you think data will

Re: Moving top level to a subvolume

2012-06-13 Thread Goffredo Baroncelli
On 06/13/2012 09:21 AM, Arne Jansen wrote: On 13.06.2012 09:04, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Arne Jansen sensi...@gmx.net wrote: On 06/08/2012 09:24 PM, Matthew Hawn wrote: I just converted my root filesystem to btrfs with btrfs-convert. However, since I am

Re: Moving top level to a subvolume

2012-06-12 Thread Randy Barlow
On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 01:53:23 AM Duncan wrote: We get a lot of folks on this list who somehow miss the kernel warning, and the wiki warning, and the general community knowledge, that btrfs is still marked experimental and is still under heavy development. If something goes wrong, as

Re: Moving top level to a subvolume

2012-06-12 Thread Michael
The Ubuntu wiki does not(in a straight-forward way) say BTRFS is experimental and unstable. It looks like they copied and pasted from the BTRFS official Wiki. Link:  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/btrfs I do not have an account on the BTRFS wiki, but I believe changing the first paragraphs to

Re: Moving top level to a subvolume

2012-06-12 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Randy Barlow ra...@electronsweatshop.com wrote: I personally run Gentoo, but I've been told by some coworkers that the Ubuntu installer offers btrfs as an option to the users without marking it as experimental, unstable, or under development. I wonder if that is

Re: Moving top level to a subvolume

2012-06-08 Thread Arne Jansen
On 06/08/2012 09:24 PM, Matthew Hawn wrote: I just converted my root filesystem to btrfs with btrfs-convert. However, since I am running Ubuntu, I would like to have the same subvolume structure as a default install,. How do I move the top-level subvolume (where all my files currently are)