Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:43:58PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > ext2 is built on top of ext2. Bob Dole doesn't talk about Bob Dole? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 12:08:55AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > That is actually the case for every filesystem conversion (that I can > think of). msdos to vfat and vfat to ntfs convert smoothly with Microsoft's tools. ext2 to ext3 is a one-comman

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:34:33PM -0200, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > Hi. > How can i do this without losing the data on my NTFS partition? Only if you have another hard drive to back up to. It's not like ext2 to ext3 where you c

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3.

2003-10-30 Thread David Palmer.
This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but here is the link to the utility I was referring to in an earlier post:- http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=321792 Hope this helps. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread mody
I think You can't just convert, but there is a project with write support on NTFS volumes... http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ Haven't try myself. Mody signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham 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 > -- Fred > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Joyce, Matthew 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 ex

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:33:25 +1100 > "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > > >

RE: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Matt -- > -Original Message- > From: Rodney D. Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2003 4:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3 > > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:33:25 +1100 > "J

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:08:55 -0500 Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nathan Poznick wrote: > > Thus spake Frederico Rodrigues Abraham: > > > >>Hi. > >>How can i do this without losing the data on my NTFS partition? > >>This is the final step for moving completely from windo

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Rodney D. Myers
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 > > > > > > >

RE: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > >>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 > > somewher

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham 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 assuming your current kernel supports ntfs format and you h

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Nathan Poznick wrote: Thus spake Frederico Rodrigues Abraham: 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

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 at 23:34 GMT, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham penned: > 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 -- Fred > > I'm under the impression that writing to

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Frederico Rodrigues Abraham: > 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 dat

Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
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 -- Fred -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL