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Use EXT4 instead of BTRFS - xmbcboy - 10th Feb, 2015 08:32 PM
Hi all,
Is it possible to use an EXT4 filesystem on my SD Card insted of BTRFS?
RE: Use EXT4 instead of BTRFS - f1vefour - 10th Feb, 2015 08:46 PM
Why would you want to, just curious?
RE: Use EXT4 instead of BTRFS - xmbcboy - 12th Feb, 2015 10:23 PM
(10th Feb, 2015 08:46 PM)f1vefour Wrote: Why would you want to, just curious?
Hi, I would like to use it because sometimes I want to put the SD card on my laptop which is running an older version os Ubuntu and doesn't mount the SD card.
RE: Use EXT4 instead of BTRFS - rikardo1979 - 12th Feb, 2015 10:53 PM
(12th Feb, 2015 10:23 PM)xmbcboy Wrote:can't you just copy what ever you want over the network instead of swaping card between RPi and pc?(10th Feb, 2015 08:46 PM)f1vefour Wrote: Why would you want to, just curious?
Hi, I would like to use it because sometimes I want to put the SD card on my laptop which is running an older version os Ubuntu and doesn't mount the SD card.
much easier and better I would say
RE: Use EXT4 instead of BTRFS - f1vefour - 12th Feb, 2015 11:16 PM
BTRFS is baked in, there is no way AFAIK to use EXT4.
RE: Use EXT4 instead of BTRFS - mk01 - 9th Jul, 2015 05:03 PM
@f1vefour
this is like bad dream.
XBian is fs type independent since commits in March-2013 with public release of Beta2.
btrfs is a configuration option for auto img builder (for instance rpi2 img):
https://github.com/xbianonpi/xbian/blob/master/xbian-build-img/build/rpi2/config#L4
xbian-cloner accepts fstype parameter when destination (block device) is being specified for clone.
RE: Use EXT4 instead of BTRFS - f1vefour - 14th Jul, 2015 07:56 AM
@mk01
The reason I said "baked in" is because of the btrfs auto-backup mechanism, I didn't know if it would break something to use a different filesystem.
Would it not?
RE: Use EXT4 instead of BTRFS - CurlyMo - 14th Jul, 2015 05:45 PM
It ofc does break some things like snapshots. I believe the backup system will just fall back to dd instead of the snapshot one.
Re: RE: Use EXT4 instead of BTRFS - f1vefour - 14th Jul, 2015 09:00 PM
(14th Jul, 2015 05:45 PM)CurlyMo Wrote: It ofc does break some things like snapshots. I believe the backup system will just fall back to dd instead of the snapshot one.
If it does that's awesome forward thinking.
RE: Use EXT4 instead of BTRFS - HolyK - 30th Aug, 2015 12:22 AM
(9th Jul, 2015 05:03 PM)mk01 Wrote: xbian-cloner accepts fstype parameter when destination (block device) is being specified for clone.
Uuuh, by "xbian-cloner" you mean that "blue" screen when logged as xbian user? i guess so?
//EDIT: Yes, he did
