On-the-fly file system change

1. offizieller Beitrag

    Make a backup of your data disk (you should have one!)

    Stop all services

    Point you shared folders to some place which survives the next steps (may be an empty folder on os disk)

    Delete the array

    Recreate the array

    Restore the backup

    Make your shared folders point to the right directories

    Start the services


    Take care for any symlinks or dockers creates with volumes pointing to /srv/dev-disk-by....


    That is as easy as it can get.

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    Friend, I asked for on-the-fly conversion without data loss. Something like in windows you change the file system from FAT32 to NTFS.


    I knew about breaking the matrix and doing everything from the beginning before I asked the question on the forum. I can not do this because I have nowhere to save the data from the matrix.

    • Offizieller Beitrag
    Zitat von gips

    Is there any easy way to convert the filesystem to ext4 but without losing any data


    Zitat von gips

    Friend, I asked for on-the-fly conversion without data loss

    As Zoki said the simple answer is no, but his reply was probably not as direct.

    Raid is not a backup! Would you go skydiving without a parachute?


    OMV 6x amd64 running on an HP N54L Microserver

    Zitat von geaves

    As Zoki said the simple answer is no, but his reply was probably not as direct.

    Isn't it just a matter of running convert --force windows linux --now on the CLI?!?


    :D:D:D


    Sorry, couldn't let it go, :saint:

    Zitat von gips

    Friend, I asked for on-the-fly conversion without data loss. Something like in windows you change the file system from FAT32 to NTFS.


    I knew about breaking the matrix and doing everything from the beginning before I asked the question on the forum. I can not do this because I have nowhere to save the data from the matrix.

    Depends on what you call "easyy way". But if you do not have backups of the data, why not just delete it and start fresh?

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    You got all the answers:

    - There is no magic way to convert file systems from btrfs to ext4

    - You will have to format the raid and restore a backup.

    - You may have to change configs.


    See #4

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