Greg Wooledge (12023-03-17):
> > I have a block device on the local host /dev/something with data on it.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^There. I have data, therefore, any solution that assumes the data is not there can only be proposed by somebody who did not read carefully. > > And so on. In fact, I don't see the word "btrfs" anywhere in the email. Indeed. > Oh and hey, as long as we're being meta here, why would you write a > sentence like: > > > I have a block device on the local host /dev/something with data on it. > > Why wouldn't you give the actual NAME of the block device, and say what > type of file system is on it? Assuming it's a file system, and not a > raw partition used for swap, or an Oracle database, or glob knows what. > This vagueness serves no purpose at all. It is not vagueness, it is genericness: /dev/something is anything and contains anything, and I want a solution that works for anything. Regards, -- Nicolas George
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