Kevin Brosius on Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:10:13 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] NTFS --> to ? Conversion


"W. Chris Shank" wrote:
> 
> Has anyone know of or used any tools that can change a filesystem from
> NTFS to ... anything else? Does anyone know of free tools to do this and
> what has your experience with them been like? What is the potential data
> risk? I know PArtionMagic can do it. Anything else? Also - does anyone
> know if there is a non-destructive way to go from NTFS-->ext3? perhaps by
> way of FAT?
> 
> Please share your thoughts and experiences.
> 
> Thank you

Usually I just create the new partition type and copy everything to it
from the old partition.  You mean to change the filesystem in place? 
That would be an interesting tool.

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Kevin Brosius
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