On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 1:57 PM Garry T. Williams <gtwilli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Monday, June 14, 2021 3:50:57 PM EDT Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 6/14/21 1:12 PM, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > > > I mean if I backup from BTRFS can I restore it into ext4 ? > > > > Your backup software neither knows nor cares how your filesystem is > > formatted, so of course you can. Unless, of course, you're cloning the > > partition, in which case a restore will overwrite the partition with the > > original formatting. > > I'm pretty sure Chris was correct. You system is set up to boot from > the btrfs file system -- not ext4. Changing the file system will > result in needed changes in boot loader, fstab, etc. > > Restoring to an ext4 file system will not result in a bootable system.
Strictly speaking, restoring to a *new* file system will result in an unbootable system. The FS UUID has changed, all the changes for assembly need to be reflected in /etc/fstab, and the bootloader configuration files (a minimum of four). Even if this were LVM/ext4 being backedup and restored to LVM/ext4 it's the same problem and same number of steps to fix all of it after the restore. And to my knowledge no tool knows how to do that except the installer. And the installer only knows how to do it in the context of a clean install. Not a repair. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
