Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

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 else, format it as ext3, and then copy it back.

That is actually the case for every filesystem conversion (that I can
think of).

-Roberto

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