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.
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.