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From: Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>
To: "Тимофей Титовец" <nefelim4ag@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: btrfs-convert won't convert ext* - No valid Btrfs found on /dev/sdb1
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 15:54:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130905145407.GA25694@carfax.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGqmi74L9WrifDROz7Mr4r3BxqDWiyiQqy0Wn6JBdfz17qDY9A@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 05:43:27PM +0300, Тимофей Титовец wrote:
> Hello guys, i try to convert ext4 volume, but btrfs-convert show me error:
> "No valid Btrfs found on file
> unable to open ctree
> conversion aborted."
> Ubuntu 13.04
> Kernel: 3.11
> btrfs-progs git version 0.20-git20130822~194aa4a13
> 
> way to reproduce error:
> $ truncate -s 4G file
> $ mkfs.ext4 file #say yes to create fs on non block device.
> $ btrfs-convert file
>  No valid Btrfs found on file
>  unable to open ctree
>  conversion aborted.

   I'm guessing here, but I suspect you will need to create a loopback
device so that btrfs-convert can look at it as a block device rather
than as a file:

# losetup -f --show file
/dev/loop0
# btrfs-convert /dev/loop0

   Hugo.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-05 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-05 14:43 btrfs-convert won't convert ext* - No valid Btrfs found on /dev/sdb1 Тимофей Титовец
2013-09-05 14:54 ` Hugo Mills [this message]
2013-09-05 15:06   ` Roman Mamedov
2013-09-05 15:30     ` Hugo Mills
2013-09-05 15:34       ` Roman Mamedov
2013-09-05 15:44         ` Hugo Mills
2013-09-05 15:45 ` Eric Sandeen
2013-09-05 18:44   ` Josef Bacik
2013-10-11  7:52     ` Daniel
2013-10-11  8:00       ` Wang Shilong

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