Hi everyone,
I was wondering if there was any way I could convert an ext4 partition into an xfs partition without copying around files onto a separate partition and reformatting. The partition in question is my /home on a volume group of its own.
I realised, lately I have been dealing with very large files quite often. Ranging from few hundred megs to a gig or two. So I decided to switch to xfs. Do you think its worth the effort?
Also since we are talking about my /home here, there will also be small conf/settings files along with the large files. Do you think that would be disadvantageous somehow? Would it make more sense to shrink my /home and have a separate xfs partition in the created space for the large files?
Thanks for any thoughts on this.