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jglen490, After my experience I would agree with you entirely. I think OpenSUSE, at least, ought to reconsider making it the default file system. By the way, I like your signature block about Windows. I like to misquote Matthew Quigley near the end of the movie Quigley Down Under: "Said I...

That's assuming you're on a system that uses rpms. If not there should still be a way to list all the packages you have installed and the name of one of them should start with "virtualbox-qt" and be followed by some version number.

What version of "installed package virtualbox-qt" to you have installed. You can find out with "rpm -qa | grep virtualbox-qt"?

Chris, I gave it some thought but ended up going with XFS. I may be putting myself back in the same boat as with btrfs but we'll see. If that happens I'll definitely go with EXT4. By now I've got a check list for all the installs and tweaks I need to get my system back so it will be easy...

Kitty99, Actually, the command I gave you ends up copying everything twice. As you saw you get all the files in one directory but you also get them in their directories. Not good. The other thing I noticed in working with this is that all the files are copied to the backup directory with...

Thank you, gentlemen, I appreciate your time looking at this for me. As you suggest I could use gParted to shrink the partition. It does support shrinking a btrfs partition so that would probably work. So what I could do is to run Suse from my live CD and use gParted from there. What happened...

Hmm, let me take a look at that.

Here's why nl myfile > myfile doesn't work. The shell (bash) is reading and processing your commands as you enter them. It sees your nl command and sees that you want the output to go into myfile so it opens myfile for output. This deletes any existing contents and gets the file ready to...

How are you doing on this? Have you figured out cp and tar?

Kitty, Here's a find command that may do the job for you: find /mail/john/ -mtime +365 -exec cp -r {} /backup/john \; /mail/john/ (with the trailing slash) is the source directory, "-mtime +365" says to look for files older than 365 days and "-exec" says to execute the following command which...

Kitty, I just noticed your "more than a year ago" requirement. The rsync command I gave acts on everything in the directory. gwood55

Kitty, Instead of using find you might take a look at rsync. I use it to backup my files. In your case you might try this: cd /mail/john rsync --delete -avh cur /backup/john The "-delete" option says if there is a file in /backup/john/cur that is not in /mail/john/cur then delete it. The...

This seems like a fairly common issue but I'm having trouble finding clear answers. I just replaced Win 10 on my laptop with OpenSuse 15.1 and the installation went with btrfs. I let it use all of my 2TB hdd as a single partition for / and /home. I've been using it for a couple weeks now and...