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Ext2 Conversion

btrfs-convert is not well tested and recommended. Especially for Kernels > 4.0. Personaly it generates errors on BTRFS which will appear after some time. Better way is to use additional temporary disc to move data to newly created BTRFS. 

fsck -f /dev/sda1
fsck -f /dev/sda6
 
btrfs-convert /dev/sda1
Disk usage before conversion: used 1.56GB, free 2.53GB
after conversion: used 1.65GB, free 2.43GB
btrfs check /dev/sda1

Update system

Mount new root filesystem: 

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
for i in dev dev/pts proc sys ; do mount --bind /$i /mnt/$i ; done
chroot /mnt

get new UUID of /dev/sda1 using “blkid” mount /dev/sda1 somewhere, go to etc/fstab and update to new UUID: 

UUID=a74f5787-aee1-4981-b7e6-fbd3cb6ac919 /               btrfs    defaults 0       1
mount /boot  # if on separate partition
update-grub
grub-install /dev/sda
umount /boot
 
exit  # from chrooted env
 
reboot

and remove Live CD / USB with Gparted

rollback to ext2 FS

Rollback to ext2 is possible. There is subvolume ext2_saved on filesystem. 

btrfs subvolume list /

To delete backup 

btrfs subvolume delete /ext2_saved