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Re: [PLUG] NTFS --> to ? Conversion
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Would that filesystem-change technique preserve permissions?
The more difficult part of migration from Windows to Linux would be
moving the user accounts and permissions.
gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:03:59PM -0700, W. Chris Shank wrote:
Linux already supports NTFS (to some degree anyway) - and it is
distributed with the kernel. I agree that scratch-space would be
necessary. Maybe the conversion tool would copy the entire windows partion
data to a network share - reformats it as ext3 and then copies it back? If
it did so automatically and reliably, then it would be an In-Place
migration from the perspective of the user doing the migration.
If that's all you want, then you can do that with a shell script.
pax -r -w -pe <mounted NTFS partition> <network share>
[format NTFS partition to ext3]
pas -r -w -pe <network share> <newly formatted partition>
Add it to your kickstart netinstall. (Do the first pax before and the
second pax after.)
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