File system conversion

[Bill Warner]

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I don't think there is any way at all to on the fly convert to ext2 from
vfat.  creating a buch of iso images and burning them all to cd would be
a good idea anyway.  if that drive goes dead that is a lot of
burning/downloading time gone to waste.


BillW

On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 05:36, Alan Dayley wrote:
> A friend of mine has a 40G hard drive FULL of MP3s.  It is all in a VFAT =
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> ripped and collected the songs.  Well, the drive is now connected to a Li=
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> box but VFAT does not provide good permission administration under Linux =
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> he wants to convert it to ext2 or some other Linux friendly file system.
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> Is there a utility to convert the file system "on the fly" so he does not=
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> have to move the data to other media and copy it back again?  I know larg=
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> hard drives are cheap now but he doesn't want to worry about doing the wh=
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> would rather not spend any money.
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