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   - btrfs utils version 3.17   - btrfs utils version 3.17
  
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-===== Ext2 Conversion ===== 
-**btrfs-convert** is not well tested and recommended. Especially for Kernels > 4.0. 
-Personaly it generates errors on BTRFS which will appear after some time. 
-Better way is to use additional temporary disc to move data to newly created BTRFS. 
-<code bash> 
-fsck -f /dev/sda1 
-fsck -f /dev/sda6 
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-btrfs-convert /dev/sda1 
-</code> 
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-  Disk usage before conversion: used 1.56GB, free 2.53GB 
-  after conversion: used 1.65GB, free 2.43GB 
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-<code bash>btrfs check /dev/sda1</code> 
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-==== Update system ==== 
-Mount new root filesystem: 
- 
-<code bash> 
-mount /dev/sda1 /mnt 
-for i in dev dev/pts proc sys ; do mount --bind /$i /mnt/$i ; done 
-chroot /mnt 
-</code> 
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-get new UUID of /dev/sda1 using "blkid" 
-mount /dev/sda1 somewhere, go to etc/fstab and update to new UUID: 
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-  UUID=a74f5787-aee1-4981-b7e6-fbd3cb6ac919 /               btrfs    defaults 0       1 
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-<code bash> 
-mount /boot  # if on separate partition 
-update-grub 
-grub-install /dev/sda 
-umount /boot 
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-exit  # from chrooted env 
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-reboot 
-</code> 
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-and remove Live CD / USB with Gparted 
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-==== rollback to ext2 FS ==== 
-Rollback to ext2 is possible. There is subvolume ext2_saved on filesystem. 
-<code bash>btrfs subvolume list /</code> 
-To delete backup 
-<code bash>btrfs subvolume delete /ext2_saved</code> 
  
 ===== Update to kernel 4 ===== ===== Update to kernel 4 =====