ext2 and fat16?

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo]

Lai Zit Seng wrote:

> On Fri, 27 May 2005, Frank Chen wrote:
>
>> How much difference is there between ext2 and fat16
>> file systems? One of my Linux partitions is in fat16.
>> I was able to mount it as ext2 and modify files and
>> directories. Is it possible to convert it from fat16
>> to ext2 without losing the data?
>
>
> Are you sure you successfully mounted a FAT16 as Ext2? You're probably 
> mistaken :)
>
> Regards,
>
A question remains to Frank: how did you mount it? Did he explicitly 
said it was an ext2 filesystem (using -t ext2)? If he simply used "mount 
/device /mountpoint" , then he simply mounted it as fat ... Now , if he 
did mount it as ext2 (which can be easily checked by doing a mount |grep 
ext) , then I think he probably made a miracle ;)

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Pedro Macedo