Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 01:45 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thursday 06 April 2006 07:01, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] > > > > You might want to do a dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/borrowed-disk if you don't > > want the owner knowing what was on the borrowed disk and intend to r

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 06 April 2006 07:01, Mike McCarty wrote: C:\> pkzip -a -ex -p -r some_dir some_dir\*.* C:\> pkunzip -t some_dir C:\> deltree/y some_dir I seem to recall a long time ago that pkzip and pkunzip have an entirely different set of flags, all starting with / in DO

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 06 April 2006 22:28, Paul Scott wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > One thing to keep in mind: Windows only reads FAT-based or NTFS > > filesystems. If you're just trying to keep your files from Windows when > > you move to Linux, move the files you want to keep in My Documents on the > >

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Please use inline quotes. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting On Thursday 06 April 2006 07:16, Mirco Piccin wrote: > Well, the hd was fat32 formatting 'cause is an external hd! > A friends give me with same project file inside, and i'd like to convert > filesystem in one step. Well, you can speed it up

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 06 April 2006 07:01, Mike McCarty wrote: > C:\> pkzip -a -ex -p -r some_dir some_dir\*.* > C:\> pkunzip -t some_dir > C:\> deltree/y some_dir I seem to recall a long time ago that pkzip and pkunzip have an entirely different set of flags, all starting with / in DOS. Consult pk(un)zi

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Johnson wrote: Please quote conversationally. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting On Thursday 06 April 2006 01:48, Mirco Piccin wrote: Yes, of course. But a stupid question as mine was, is finalized to know if is possible convert the vfat filesystem without backup/copy in other location!!

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 06 April 2006 05:55, Frank Lanitz wrote: > Am Donnerstag 06 April 2006 10:48 schrieb Mirco Piccin: > > But a stupid question as mine was, is finalized to know if is possible > > convert the vfat filesystem without backup/copy in other location!! > > If there's no way to do this, of cour

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Please quote conversationally. http://ursine.ca/Top_Posting On Thursday 06 April 2006 01:48, Mirco Piccin wrote: > Yes, of course. > But a stupid question as mine was, is finalized to know if is possible > convert the vfat filesystem without backup/copy in other location!! No, it's not a stupid q

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 10:24 +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote: > Hi all. > A little, stupid, question. > It's possible to "convert" a vfat (fat32) filesystem to ext3 without > loss data? > (...i hope i hope i hope...) > Thanks! No one has written a FAT->ext2 converter similar to the FAT->NTFS converter t

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Mirco Piccin
Well, the hd was fat32 formatting 'cause is an external hd!A friends give me with same project file inside, and i'd like to convert filesystem in one step.Sure, i've already done a backup copy, and already fdisk & mkfs.ext3 the hd!Thanks anyway! On 4/6/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: F

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Mike McCarty
Frank Lanitz wrote: Am Donnerstag 06 April 2006 10:48 schrieb Mirco Piccin: But a stupid question as mine was, is finalized to know if is possible convert the vfat filesystem without backup/copy in other location!! If there's no way to do this, of course i'll backup/copy data before formatting

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am Donnerstag 06 April 2006 10:48 schrieb Mirco Piccin: > But a stupid question as mine was, is finalized to know if is possible > convert the vfat filesystem without backup/copy in other location!! > If there's no way to do this, of course i'll backup/copy data before > formatting in ext3 HD! Sti

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am Donnerstag 06 April 2006 10:48 schrieb Mirco Piccin: > But a stupid question as mine was, is finalized to know if is possible > convert the vfat filesystem without backup/copy in other location!! > If there's no way to do this, of course i'll backup/copy data before > formatting in ext3 HD! Sti

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Mirco Piccin
Yes, of course.But a stupid question as mine was, is finalized to know if is possible convert the vfat filesystem without backup/copy in other location!!If there's no way to do this, of course i'll backup/copy data before formatting in ext3 HD! Thanks - i'll procede with backup:-( On 4/6/06, Paul J

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 06 April 2006 01:24, Mirco Piccin wrote: > Hi all. > A little, stupid, question. > It's possible to "convert" a vfat (fat32) filesystem to ext3 without loss > data? > (...i hope i hope i hope...) Not gonna happen unless you back everything up and restore from backup to the ext3 media

Re: vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread linux
Zitat von Mirco Piccin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It's possible to "convert" a vfat (fat32) filesystem to ext3 without loss > data? Why don't you save all your data (what you always should do if you are planning something like that), create your ext3-partition and copy your data back. No data should

vfat to ext3 without data loss

2006-04-06 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi all.A little, stupid,  question.It's possible to "convert" a vfat (fat32) filesystem to ext3 without loss data?(...i hope i hope i hope...)Thanks!