RE: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

["Joyce, Matthew" <MJoyce@ccia.org.au>]

> > 
> >>	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.