Re: vfat to ext2/3 conversion...
On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 05:33:38PM +0200, Josh wrote:
>
> i have some hdd using vfat fs.
> since i'm no longer using windows, is there a way to convert this vfat
> fs to ext2 or ext3 without loosing data ?
No, but you can very easily make an archive of the data (with tar or
afio), use fdisk to change the partition type to 'Linux', run mke2fs(8),
and restore the data from the archive -- provided you have sufficient
space to make an archive in the first place.
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