From 1156458fc1dcde686d7764ec88a7fc64922c3978 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Harmstone Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:04:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] README.md: add link to ntfs2btrfs --- README.md | 15 ++------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index cc9571c..59664f0 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -33,19 +33,8 @@ version of OVMF, which isn't the usual one bundled with Qemu. Precompiled versio * On modern versions of Windows, turn off Fast Startup in the Control Panel. -* Shutdown your VM, and copy its hard disk to a Btrfs partition. - * Surprisingly, there isn't an easy way to copy an NTFS volume exactly - you can try using - robocopy on Windows, but you'll run into files you can't easily access, even as Admin. [RunAsTI](https://github.com/jschicht/RunAsTI) - helps, but it's still not easy. Robocopy doesn't like symlinks, either. - * Better, you can mount the volume on Linux and use rsync. This does have the down side that - you'll lose the DOS attributes and the security descriptors. - -* On Windows 8, you will need to use icacls to give C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\LocalLow a -mandatory integrity level of "Low", otherwise it will crash on login. - -* On some versions of Windows 10 (1607 to 1803?), you will need to give the pseudo-group -"ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES" access to C:\Windows\Fonts, or you'll have the amusing sight of -Windows not being able to display any text. +* Shutdown your VM, and copy its hard disk to a Btrfs partition. The best way is to use [Ntfs2btrfs](https://github.com/maharmstone/ntfs2btrfs) +to do in-place conversion, which will also preserve your metadata. * Extract the Quibble package into your EFI System Partition. It's supposed to work in a subdirectory, but if you have trouble you might need to put it in the root.