Re: Easiest way to move from BTRFS to EXT4 without losing data

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 11:35 PM Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com&gt; wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 10:38 AM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreyan32(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > BTRFS is not working out for me. > > > > What will be the easiest way to move to EXT4 ? > > > > I am on Fedora 33. > > > > Please note I also want to backup my root filesystem and not just my > home. > > > > I think if you ask 10 people you'll get 10 different answers. > > The easiest to *explain* is: > * backup /home > * clean install the OS using Custom partitioning's "LVM" preset > partitioning scheme > * restore /home from backup > > And that's because the installer does a lot of work you otherwise have > to do manually: creates and assembles the new setup, writes out the > correct bootloader and fstab information, etc. > > If you know how to do these things manually already, then that path is > probably easier than a clean install, and having to reinstall some > things and adjust settings. Explaining all that in detail is tedious, > but maybe someone knows of a guide how to do all that. > > But this process is the same whether the source is btrfs, xfs or > already ext4 and you need to migrate it to new file systems/layout. > A reinstall is not exactly what I am looking for. A reinstall will mean that I have reinstall all my applications like Zoom, Vim, etc. Is there any way I can restore my root partition also ?