On 20 September 2017 at 11:12, Rodney Baker <rodney.baker@iinet.net.au> wrote:
On Wednesday, 20 September 2017 16:58:01 ACST Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Dave Plater <dplater.list@gmail.com> wrote:
One question, is there a reliable partition converter for a new user with limited space which has valuable information and everything on /?
Standard btrfs-convert supports in-place conversion from reiserfs.
Btrfs is a great choice - if you want to end up with an unbootable system after a few shapshots have used up all available disk space on the root filesystem, leaving the system unbootable and unrecoverable (and all because it doesn’t use sensible defaults and there is no warning during installation that the defaults need to be tweaked to prevent this).
Apart from the following facts snapshots are not created by btrfs, but by snapper - You don't blame your filesystem when your porn collection fills it up, why do you blame it when your snapshotting tool does? Especially when you can configure it. snapper is no longer enabled on small disks. There is a clear warning during installation if you try and force otherwise. and snapper is now aware of how much space it is using and tidies up after itself based on space availability So, what exactly isn't sensible about the current defaults? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org