Re: Is btrfs-convert able to deal with sparse files in a ext4 filesystem?

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Hi @all who answered,
thank for your help and please excuse my late answer. I didn't see
your answers because of misconfiguration of my GMail filter for that
list.
The filesystem contains backups of some other filesystems (it's on a
external storage which is mirrored by RAID 1). So, if the filesystem
get lost, there are still the source partitions of the backups. But
you're right, I have to have actually more space purposes like using
btrfs-convert, which needs a backup, but can't/want afford that at the
moment because I'm student.

As far as I remember, I used in the past btrfs-convert to convert the
ext4 root partition of my laptop. It didn't really work with old
versions of btrfs-progs (I rollbacked it then or imported a backup),
but it worked with 4.4 or so.
Nevertheless, I won't use btrfs-convert after your warnings, and will
create a new filesystem and copy the data from ext4 to btrfs when I
have enough space.

Thank you all,
Kai
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