David Sterba <dave <at> jikos.cz> writes:

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 05:19:06PM +0000, Alex wrote:

quoted

Can I create/convert a existing (btrfs) directory into a subvolume?

For the reference there's an entry at the wiki:

http://btrfs.ipv5.de/index.php?title=UseCases#Can_I_take_a_snapshot_of_a_directory.3F

Thank you all for your replies.

Kind regards.
(happily experimenting with btrfs in a 3.3 kernel!)

Al.