How to install fstransform on almalinux?

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fstransform supposedly was part of fedora and installed using

sudo dnf install fstransform

this does not work

No match for argument: fstransform
Error: Unable to find a match: fstransform

What has happened I’ve installed using xfs partition and let the installation choose the swap size which is too small now I cannot shrink /home to make room for a larger swap.

So I want to convert xfs to ext4 and fstranform seems to be the way to go if I could install it.

I’m using Almalinux 9.3

I will try to compile it from the source and report back if I get anywhere.

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i wouldn’t use a tool that’s not been maintained for 5+ years to convert filesystems.

reinstall would be the easiest option.

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Or backup home, delete and recreate it the correct size and restore the backup.

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RHEL is not Fedora. Red Hat cherry picks content from Fedora (and other sources) to RHEL, but RHEL tends to remain austere. That bare nature is a reason for the existence of extra packages repo, the EPEL. Even EPEL does not automatically maintain all “missing” packages for all versions of RHEL.

Fedora describes fstransform:

fstransform is a tool to change a file-system from one format to another, for example from jfs/xfs/reiser to ext2/ext3/ext4, in-place and without the need for backup.

Alas, we do know (the hard way) that one should have a backup even when there is no intention to do anything that could possibly mess up.

I do agree.

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okay I think that’s all sound advise.

backup reinstall is the way I’m going here. 5 years unsupported, not a good proposition.