Comment on [PSA] Swapping your Deck's filesystem to Btrfs is easy to do, and can give you more space for free
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 year ago
As someone who fell for the “Swap over to Fat32 and you’ll gain so much space” back in the day, I feel like I need to point out to newbies here, anything done to your file system has quite a bit of risk. Things can go wrong in a way that are unrecoverable unless you full reset your device. I’m not saying this project is unstable, but there is a high amount of risk involved with this.
If you decide to do this, back up all data that you may need saved and then mentally prepare that you may ultimately end up resetting your device in the end. These are real possibilities when messing with file systems.
anlumo@feddit.de 1 year ago
The real risk is losing a bit of time with this. Since everything is backed up anyways, the data is just a restore away.
If you don’t have a backup, that’s the risk and has nothing to do with this procedure.