How do I convert FAT32 to ext3 ?

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Terry Linhardt wrote:
> If I understand, I can do an fdisk, re-write the partition as a Linux 
> partition, and then do an an mkfs -j .

Yes.  That is exactly what you need to do.  I don't know how USB storage 
devices are organized (if they have partitions at all, if they are 
optional or mandatory).  It might be that you don't need partitions 
defined on the USB device at all, in which case you could just create 
file system on it, as you would do if it was floppy.

If there's partition table on the USB device, than you can simply change 
partition's system ID from FAT32 to Linux (83) using fdisk.  If fdisk 
prints bunch of errors, when you start it, than there wasn't a partition 
table on the device (just like on good old floppies).  In that case, 
forget about fdisk part, just use mkfs to build file system.

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