Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

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 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.

Point taken.  I was thinking of switching between reiserfs, xfs, jfs,
and so on.

-Roberto

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