From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Helmut Hullen" Subject: Re: btrfs-convert fails Date: 01 Nov 2010 12:55:00 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20101101104943.00007ff9@unknown> Reply-To: helmut@hullen.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20101101104943.00007ff9@unknown> List-ID: Hallo, Felix, Du meintest am 01.11.10: >>>> =A0btrfs-convert: extent-tree.c:2529: btrfs_reserve_extent: >>>> Assertion =A0 =A0 `!(ret)' failed >>>> =A0Abgebrochen >>> Try btrfs-convert -r /dev/xxx, hopefully it will recover your ext2. >> Restoring is (now) no problem, I'm still testing. But in some days >> (or weeks) I want to convert a partition with 1,5 TByte (which has >> no backup) ... > don't use btrfs for important files if you got no backup yet. It's > quite stable and a lot of ppl don't have problem with it, but there > are some cases where it could be very ugly, like a powerloss while > writing etc. In these special cases: no big problem. The 1.5 TByte partition contain= s =20 my videos (at least most of them), and there is a kind of backup on =20 another machine in the family (some kilometers away). And my machine works behind an UPS. But what about a shutdown initiated= =20 by this UPS after (p.e.) 3 minutes powerloss? Viele Gruesse! Helmut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html