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(8th Feb, 2019 07:20 PM)Don Pedro Wrote:  Good to know! But I guess when using a Pi that was installed with an older image that included compression and continually updating it via the normal xbian update process I will today have a system that is on current level but still does use compression.

That's correct

Quote:So in order to get rid of the compression I would have to do a fresh reinstall from a current image, right? Or is there a btrfs command that allows me to uncompress the FS on the fly and thereby remove compression, making it redable for other unix flavours?

Choice 1)
Doing a fresh install is one of the choices you have. btrfs does not have such a command, that's the bad news. But the good news is, since beginning of the year, I have added a command that allows you to recompress fs completely:

Choice 2)
You just have to run

sudo xbian-compress

That command does
1) check if btrfs is in good healh (btrfs srcub does not return an error)
2) modifying the mount option compress=lz4 to compress=lzo (compress mode can be overwritten by option)
3) check if enough space is available (> 50% free space must remain on fs) AFTER removing all unneeded snapshots
4) copying all subvolumes into new ones

After finishing command and a reboot all lz4 compressed extends are gone

Choice 3)
Another option is:

1) change compress=lzo to compress=lzo in /boot/cmdline.txt manually and reboot
2) Making an image backup (sudo xbian-config command 6 xbian copier)
3) flash this image to (new) sd card and boot from that card