Anyone knows how I can possibly change my file system to fat32 from ntfs? Paul. Paul Ikanza Systems Administrator The New Vision Printing and Publishing Company mailto:pikanza@newvision.co.ug pikanza@newvision.co.ug
Hi Paul,
Anyone knows how I can possibly change my file system to fat32 from ntfs?
--> backup your data to an external drive, cd, dvd. Then reformat your harddisk with the desired filesystem. But when using Linux, I would recommend using ext3 or any other native journaling filesystem. If you are talking about a Windows computer, why do you ask this question on a SuSE linux security mailinglist? HTH, Armin -- Am Hasenberg 26 office: Institut für Atmosphärenphysik D-18209 Bad Doberan Schloss-Straße 6 Tel. ++49-(0)38203/42137 D-18225 Kühlungsborn / GERMANY Email: schoech@iap-kborn.de Tel. +49-(0)38293-68-102 WWW: http://armins.cjb.net/ Fax. +49-(0)38293-68-50
Hi Paul,
Anyone knows how I can possibly change my file system to fat32 from ntfs?
--> backup your data to an external drive, cd, dvd. Then reformat your harddisk with the desired filesystem. But when using Linux, I would recommend using ext3 or any other native journaling filesystem. If you are talking about a Windows computer, why do you ask this question on a SuSE linux security mailinglist?
HTH, Armin
well, probably because he knows that windows lists just have burrocratic morrons, wich don´t have any tech skill better than a "point and click" soluction.... hahaha well, if you plan to use it with windows , remember that win 9x or ME doesn´t work with NTFS. about linux... use ext3.
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Paul Ikanza
Anyone knows how I can possibly change my file system to fat32 from ntfs?
If you're wanting to do this from within Windows, Partition Magic will convert the partition to FAT32 with, supposedly, no data loss. The best thing to do would be to back up everything, just in case the conversion fails, and use PM to convert the partition. If it succeeds, you can delete the backed up files. If not, you can reformat the partition as a FAT32 and copy the backed up data back onto it. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 63 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD 1800 1Gb WinXP/SuSE 9.2 | AMD 2400 160Mb SuSE 8.1 | AMD 2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 AMD 1300 512Mb SuSE 9.0 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02 | STE 4Mb TOS 1.62 RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11
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Tip of the day: Use partition magic (it even can convert to linux-fs)! But what is the intention of this mail (I think ntfs write option is quite experimental from linux while fat32 can be written)? <funtag on> Once upon a long a go ... ... a friend asked me the same question and afterwards if he could use fat32 with linux as he couldn't write-access ntfs at that time. I told him how to do but said to him he better partition it as ext3 because of speed and security compared with fat32. So he did but forgot that all data would be lost after repartitioning and formatting. For goodness mr. lucky guy had made a backup of his data a week before that. He was the same guy formatting his linux two year ago because his soundcard didn't work. After a while of consolehacking, google-ing and investigating he setup windows again (it would be the better solution ... lmao). After windows was setup the soundcard didn't work again and he plugged in the cable. Now he runs linux again with success (after I told him of developer-benetfits under linux as he developes java-code for his diploma-work). <funtag off> Philippe
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