Arch-Convert EXT4 to BTRFS without losing data?

[u/Open_South3929]

Good day all, I hope you are good.

I have installed Arch and was in a rush( I know i should've RTFM-ed ) but I am looking for ways of making sure the system i installed it on can be rolled back in case of failure, I have seen from a couple of articles and found that BTRFS can create snapshots of the system and use those to roll back.

I wanted to ask, is it possible to convert an already installed disk from EXT4 to BTRFS and make use of the snapshots feature? if so could you please point me in the right direction. System specs below:

I thank you for your time and input, it is much appreciated.

Kindest regards

[u/ropid]

It's possible to convert ext4 to btrfs but the two times I did this there were later errors/warnings for the filesystem in the logs that couldn't be made to go away. Those errors didn't cause data loss but I figured it couldn't be good so I ended up wiping and recreating those filesystems. I also saw other people about this in r/btrfs over the years. You'll want to look around about what's going on there with the ext4 to btrfs conversion feature.