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cmd265

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[SOLVED] help in converting partitions

Hi, i want to know if i can convert my extended partition to btrfs partition. If i can what do i need to do to convert them. I currently run dualboot of windows 10 and arch so i have these partitions.

                                             Disk: /dev/sda
                 Size: 465.78 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
                                   Label: dos, identifier: 0x61ff3a35

    Device                       Boot              Start                  End                  Sectors            Size            Id     Type
>>  /dev/sda1                 *                  2048                  206847            204800            100M          7       HPFS/NTFS/exFAT     
    /dev/sda2                                        206848            419637247      419430400     200G           7       HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
    /dev/sda3                                        419637248     428025855      8388608          4G              82     Linux swap / Solaris
    /dev/sda4                                        428025856     976773167      548747312     261.7G       5        Extended
    ├─/dev/sda5                               428027904     637743103      209715200     100G          83     Linux
    └─/dev/sda6                               637745152     976773167      339028016     161.7G       83     Linux

I use MBR disk and my root is in /dev/sda5 while home is in /dev/sda6.

Last edited by cmd265 (2019-12-01 15:18:11)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] help in converting partitions

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bt … conversion

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cmd265

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Re: [SOLVED] help in converting partitions

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bt … conversion

Thanks but before i proceed i have another question. As you can see my extended partition is divided into 2 as mbr disk only allows 4 primary partitions. My question is would that have any effect to the conversion or would it be similar to what it is right now but with different file system?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] help in converting partitions

Similar to what it is right now but with different file system.

The partition layout is unrelated to the actual FS (even the "this is a Linux partition" tag doesn't really matter)

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cmd265

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Re: [SOLVED] help in converting partitions

Similar to what it is right now but with different file system.

The partition layout is unrelated to the actual FS (even the "this is a Linux partition" tag doesn't really matter)

I did it! thanks again.