On Monday 02 Jun 2003 8:01 pm, Steven Broos wrote: > I was looking for a way to convert the data. I don't have enough > disk-space to resize©. > I thought it was possible, but I can't find anything useful on the > web. > > 40gig is too much to copy on CD, so I'll have to buy me a new > harddrive. Or are there other alternatives ? I have 2HDs and > 2CDs, so no IDE-slots left, and I don't want to have the same > problems as elPunishar :-) > > Any ideas are welcome ! > > Steven > > On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 15:34, Dave Sherman wrote: > > Steven Broos wrote: > > > I still have a 40gig HD formatted with NTFS (mounted ro) > > > Is there any way to convert it (safely!!) to ext2/ext3 without > > > temporary moving the data ? > > > > > > I'm aware of the existence of partition magic, but I don't have > > > it. And frankly, I'm not going to pay for an apllication I > > > will use once... (no, the demo version isn't functional) > > > > Are you saying you want to *convert* the filesystem from ntfs to > > ext2 without damaging the data, or do you want to *resize* the > > partition (non-destructively) in order to make room for an > > additional ext2 partition? > > > > If the former, I don't think that is possible - to change a > > filesystem generally requires formatting the partition to the new > > FS. > > > > If the latter (which makes more sense, in light of your comment > > about Partition Magic), then google for it. I managed to find a > > demo version of software that ran from a DOS boot diskette, to > > resize the NTFS-5 (WinXP) partition on my laptop. This was less > > than 6 months ago, so it should still be available.
Could the data be split into cd-size chunks? Anne
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