{"id":624,"date":"2019-11-04T18:41:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/?p=624"},"modified":"2019-11-04T18:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:42:40","slug":"changing-the-filesystem-from-ext-to-xfs-on-a-cloud-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/2019\/11\/04\/changing-the-filesystem-from-ext-to-xfs-on-a-cloud-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing the filesystem from ext to xfs on a Cloud Server"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this guide you will convert your filesystem from ext3\/4 to xfs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please be sure to have another server or host to store your backup file to during this process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1). Reboot to rescue<br>2). mount \/dev\/vg00\/lv01 \/mnt\/<br>3). tar -czvf \/mnt\/backup.tar.gz \/mnt\/<br>4). scp  \/mnt\/backup.tar.gz root@74.208.1.1:\/<br>5). umount \/mnt<br>6). mkfs.xfs -f \/dev\/mapper\/vg00-lv01<br>7). mount \/dev\/vg00\/lv01 \/mnt<br>8). cd \/mnt<br>9). scp root@74.208.1.1:\/backup.tar.gz .<br>10). tar &#8211;strip-components 1 -xvf backup.tar.gz<br>11). rm backup.tar.gz<br>12). Reboot to Local<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this guide you will convert your filesystem from ext3\/4 to xfs. Please be sure to have another server or host to store your backup file to during this process. 1). Reboot to rescue2). mount \/dev\/vg00\/lv01 \/mnt\/3). tar -czvf \/mnt\/backup.tar.gz \/mnt\/4). scp \/mnt\/backup.tar.gz root@74.208.1.1:\/5). umount \/mnt6). mkfs.xfs -f \/dev\/mapper\/vg00-lv017). mount \/dev\/vg00\/lv01 \/mnt8). cd \/mnt9). scp&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server-help.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}