On 8/15/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve</b> <<a href="mailto:bassix-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">bassix-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><br>
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I have a large FAT32 partition with still a bunch of stuff on it, that
I want to convert to ext3. Is this possible, keeping the data on it?
I'm trying to avoid burning onto a bunch of DVDs!</blockquote><div><br>
No, that sort of thing is not supported.<br>
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The problem is that a "FS1 to FS2" convertor would require a complete
comprehension of BOTH filesystems, which would be orders of magnitude
more difficult than merely understanding one of them.<br>
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Furthermore, if power was interrupted half way through, what would you
expect would happen? Parts of the partition would be in "FS1"
format and other parts would be in "FS2" format. And what if both
expected to use certain portions of the partition to store some of the
basic lookup information?<br>
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Every time you "turn over a stone" you find another set of Really Ugly Conditions associated with such a process.<br>
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You would be WAY better off grabbing a cheap USB disk (I grabbed a 40GB
one that runs off USB power for $150 a little while back) and
temporarily copy the data onto something like that. If you had a
Terabyte of data to move around, LaCie sells a 1TB FireWire disk array
for about $1K USD, at the "ridiculously large" side of things :-).<br>
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