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Option to not make an image of the disk #1

Closed MegaZeroX10 closed 4 years ago

MegaZeroX10 commented 4 years ago

It would be nice if one was added.

maharmstone commented 4 years ago

Not going to happen - you can always delete it if you don't want it.

MegaZeroX10 commented 4 years ago

What if there's not enough disk space to make the image?

maharmstone commented 4 years ago

You might want to read up on how btrfs-convert operates - we follow the same principles here.

MegaZeroX10 commented 4 years ago

Does the image file get saved or not? I read the description and all it mentions is that it uses the free space to convert the drive.

TheMadHau5 commented 3 years ago

The image file, much like the rest of btrfs, uses CoW (copy-on-write) and so doesn't use up much more additional hard disk space, so it should be fine keeping it there. As the author said, you could always delete it if you don't need it.