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Convert existing ext4 filesystem to btrfs

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What I want to achieve is getting btrfs features like snapshots, compression and deduplication The problem is, my system already running and containing data, filesystem is ext4 under linux lvm. So I will convert existing ext4 filesystem to btrfs, keeping lvm partition, and only /home will be converted   Converting to btrfs in-place LVM partition: NAME                      MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda                         8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk   ├─sda1                      8:1    0   123M  0 part /boot/efi ├─sda2           ...