Reformating my drives to ZFS but keeping all the data

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Is it possible to reformat my system to ZFS but keep all the data i have on my system already? in addition to this could i also include /nix in the reformat to i can use the compression to my advantage?

im not really sure how to go about this or if its even possible as in the past when i reformatted things it wiped everything

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currently my drives are formatted as ext4
let me know if you need anymore information
thank you for your time!

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ZFS doesn’t have any kind of migration tool. For any drive you want to reformat with ZFS, you’ll have to copy all the data off it to somewhere else, reformat it, and then copy it back to the new file system.

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Darn alright thank you