File system conversion

[Troy]

If I was part of the RIAA I would hunt him down and kill him!

But Im not, soooooo

You can use partition magic.  It supports ext2 to my knowledge.   Its not
free and he would have to boot the CD and/or use a bootdisk since I think
its still DOS/windows based.

Troy Moniz

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Alan Dayley wrote:

> A friend of mine has a 40G hard drive FULL of MP3s.  It is all in a VFAT file
> system, you know, Windows 95 or newer, because he was running Windows when he
> ripped and collected the songs.  Well, the drive is now connected to a Linux
> box but VFAT does not provide good permission administration under Linux so
> he wants to convert it to ext2 or some other Linux friendly file system.
>
> Is there a utility to convert the file system "on the fly" so he does not
> have to move the data to other media and copy it back again?  I know large
> hard drives are cheap now but he doesn't want to worry about doing the whole
> dump-change original file system by formatting-dump back thing.  Plus he
> would rather not spend any money.
>
> Alan
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