Converting ext4 to xfs

[suvayu ali]

Hi Michael,

On 1 October 2010 08:57, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> wrote:
> Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> So I decided to
>> switch to xfs. Do you think its worth the effort?
>
> AFAIK there is no conversion for ext4->xfs. However, there is a
> conversion for ext4->btrfs. It is also reversible if you end up not
> liking btrfs. I've switched to btrfs as my file system of choice though.
> (Former xfs user)

Thank you for your input. After your response, I read a little bit
about btrfs. It seems the feature set is quite enticing. I am
considering using it except that there seems to be a lack of gui tools
for it. I am not very familiar with dealing with filesystems,
otherwise I am a quite comfortable command line user.

Apart from a howtoforge article and a couple of pages on the btrfs
wiki I couldn't find beginner level documentation to get familiar with
the command line tools for btrfs. Could you point me to some resources
to get started?

Thanks a lot everyone who responded.

-- 
Suvayu

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