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[Giles Malet]

On 01/22/2014 01:55 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> Did you backup, reformat, then restore, or is there a conversion tool
> to go from ext* to btrfs?

There are conversion tools, at least for ext* filesystems. For example:

http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-convert-an-ext3-ext4-root-file-system-to-btrfs-on-ubuntu-12.10

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