How do I convert FAT32 to ext3 ?
Terry Linhardt
linhardt at swbell.net
Fri Nov 19 16:55:16 UTC 2004
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Terry Linhardt wrote:
>
>> I have acquired a disk formatted as FAT32. I would like to convert it
>> to ext3. It would be appreciated if someone can give me a quick
>> summary of the steps involved (or point me to some documentation. The
>> disk is USB, and the OS does "see" it.
>
>
> You can't convert it. You need to move data somewhere else, redo the
> file system as ext3 (mkfs -j), and copy the data back to it. FAT32
> and ext3 are completely different file systems. It is unlikely
> there's a tool that does conversion. (as a side note, even NTFS (where
> such conversion is possible) that was converted from FAT/FAT32 is not
> exactly the same thing as "native" NTFS).
>
I did not explain myself well. :(
There isn't any data on the disk. Not anything I want to save, anyway.
But, I simply want a disk which is currently formatted as FAT32 to be
formatted as ext3. I realize any existing data (which is of no use to
me) will be destroyed.
If I understand, I can do an fdisk, re-write the partition as a Linux
partition, and then do an an mkfs -j .
Regards..Terry
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