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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