On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:33:25 +1100 "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > >
> > >> Hi.
> > >> How can i do this without losing the data on my NTFS partition?
> > >> This is the final step for moving completely from
> > windows to linux!
> > >> yay!
> > >> Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > > You can't convert the partition in-place, you'll have to
> > copy the data
> > > somewhere else, format it as ext3, and then copy it back.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > That is actually the case for every filesystem conversion
> > (that I can think of).
> >
>
> ext2 -> ext3, nope.
> fat32 -> ntfs, nope.
and your point?
ext2 is built on top of ext2.
fat32 to ntfs, kissing cousins, micro$oft filesystems. they are related,
and not very different.
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