How do I restore from a copy after a fresh reinstall?
So, I was trying to add more space to keep pinned images in kde partition manager and managed to bork the main btrfs partition. I didn't realize it until I tried to boot my computer the next morning and it failed after grub. All of the images failed in the same way. I have backups of my most important files, but it's far from everything. I did some reading about btrfs data recovery online, and while I haven't been able to unbork that partition I was able to use btrfs restore to copy all of the files out of it and into an ext4 partition.
So, I'm getting ready to reinstall bazzite and am left with a near perfect copy of my previous system, but on ext4 on an external harddrive. (It will be missing btrfs metadata. It should still have the symlinks and extended attributes though.) What's the best way to restore from this?
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