Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham 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 -- Fred -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread mody
I think You can't just convert, but there is a project with write support on NTFS volumes... http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ Haven't try myself. Mody signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3.

2003-10-30 Thread David Palmer.
This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but here is the link to the utility I was referring to in an earlier post:- http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=321792 Hope this helps. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:34:33PM -0200, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: Hi. How can i do this without losing the data on my NTFS partition? Only if you have another hard drive to back up to. It's not like ext2 to ext3 where you

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 12:08:55AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: That is actually the case for every filesystem conversion (that I can think of). msdos to vfat and vfat to ntfs convert smoothly with Microsoft's tools. ext2 to ext3 is a

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:43:58PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: ext2 is built on top of ext2. Bob Dole doesn't talk about Bob Dole? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian -

Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Frederico Rodrigues Abraham
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 -- Fred -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake Frederico Rodrigues Abraham: 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

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 at 23:34 GMT, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham penned: 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 -- Fred I'm under the impression that writing to

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Nathan Poznick wrote: Thus spake Frederico Rodrigues Abraham: 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

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham 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 assuming your current kernel supports ntfs format and you have

RE: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
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,

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:33:25 +1100 Joyce, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:08:55 -0500 Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathan Poznick wrote: Thus spake Frederico Rodrigues Abraham: 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!

RE: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Joyce, Matthew
Matt -- -Original Message- From: Rodney D. Myers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2003 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3 On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:33:25 +1100 Joyce, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 16:33:25 +1100 Joyce, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
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