-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:34:03AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 08:32 +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > On 4/5/07, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 4/4/07, Johannes Wiedersich > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If you have enough disk space to accomodate your data *without* > > > > compression you could do the following: > > > > > > > > - boot a 'rescue system' (I recommend knoppix) from CD or usb > > > > - mount both your partition and the one with the free space > > > > - rsync -avx your data to the free space > > > > - reformat your partition to ext3 (all data will be lost, so make sure > > > > you have good backups!) > > > > - rsync all your data back to the new ext3-partition > > > > - adjust your /etc/fstab (replace reiserfs by ext3) > > > > - cross your fingers and reboot > > > > > > OK, but if copy the file to fat32 partion, any problem ? > > > > > > > You'll lose the permission bits and owner/group, etc. (Maybe even > > filename case, but I'm not sure). Use tar if all you have is fat32. > > Note too that FAT32 maximum file size is 4GB. >
Also might want to note that you WILL lose filename case, FAT32 only allows for lowercase characters in filenames. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGFPRe/o7Q/FCvPe0RAsKMAKCL1AhpCvAghKqw0WHJmSH3YbWgqQCdH7In PYbNWtihJUPok4JYfu7Dx2g= =X6+9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
