[Trisquel-users] convert NTFS to XFS without loosing data

2012-10-30 Thread silemmo
Hello everybody, I am pretty new to gnu/linux trisquel but I love it. The question is in the title. So thank you in advance for your answers.

Re: [Trisquel-users] convert NTFS to XFS without loosing data

2012-10-30 Thread aliasbody
Please when creating a post, try to use a simple title and then write the whole idea/problem/proposition (again if necessary) in the post itself. That would help in terms of organization so more people could help you. As for you problem. As much as I know it is not possible (at least I didn't

Re: [Trisquel-users] convert NTFS to XFS without loosing data

2012-10-30 Thread silemmo
Hello, sorry for title I didn't know that. Your solution is the first I thought also but I dont have enough space to do that. I have to borrow an external drive somewhere :-). Your comment about XFS is disturbing, I have big files like videos minimum 700 MB but also small files like songs 5

Re: [Trisquel-users] convert NTFS to XFS without loosing data

2012-10-30 Thread aliasbody
Maybe I express myself in the wrong way xD All free file system are good for any use, the real "issue" is a performance one. As an example : - People with Netbooks or SSD's mostly choose EXT2 (because it isn't a journalised file system and because of that there is less writing in the disk,

Re: [Trisquel-users] convert NTFS to XFS without loosing data

2012-10-30 Thread Stefano
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:44:37 +0100 (CET) sile...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello everybody, I am pretty new to gnu/linux trisquel but I love it. The > question is in the title. So thank you in advance for your answers. Hi, You cannot convert NTFS to XFS on the fly. You must back up your data somewher

Re: [Trisquel-users] convert NTFS to XFS without loosing data

2012-10-30 Thread aliasbody
I personally always saw the inverse in benchmarks :s... XFS Being better with a large amount of small files than the inverse, but I can be wrong. A long time has passed since the last time that I used XFS but as far as I know there is the problem of now being shrinkable (an this can be proble

Re: [Trisquel-users] convert NTFS to XFS without loosing data

2012-10-30 Thread aliasbody
I forgot to mention the block size thing. I saw my mistake sorry xD As I said o Magic Banana, a long time as passed since the last time that I used a XFS File-System, I am just relying on Benchmarks and "specialized" blogs.

Re: [Trisquel-users] convert NTFS to XFS without loosing data

2012-10-30 Thread aliasbody
Indeed, the laziness problem can be quickly solved with a USB Pen with parted live (or even Trisquel LiveCD) and resize everything. I personally never trusted the idea of having the same /home directory when you have 2 distribution, one being rolling distribution (Parabola Gnu/Linux) and a

Re: [Trisquel-users] convert NTFS to XFS without loosing data

2012-10-30 Thread tegskywalker
One day Btrfs will be stable enough to be used by default.

Re: [Trisquel-users] convert NTFS to XFS without loosing data

2012-10-31 Thread aliasbody
Thanks for the information :D I seriously don't see any problems with EXT4 to be honest. The only "if" that I see is when I try to extract a 7GB iso from multiple .rar or .zip files and it takes 11minutes where on the same Operating System, with the same techniques and tools but using an NTFS