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Skylar Thompson | 1 Sep 2002 17:59

Re: FAT32 to EXT3

On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 05:16:33PM +1000, Rene Cunningham wrote:
> I thought that was going to be the answer.

The problem is that FAT32 and Ext3 are so different that it is impossible
to convert without data loss. I would hesitate even to call FAT32 a
filesystem; it's more of a file repository, and a pretty inefficient one at
that.

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Justin Zygmont | 1 Sep 2002 18:28
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Re: FAT32 to EXT3

:)  Doesn't windows have a converter from fat to ntfs?  If it does, there
might actually be a way.  Reformatting would really be the best thing to
do.

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Skylar Thompson wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 05:16:33PM +1000, Rene Cunningham wrote:
> > I thought that was going to be the answer.
>
> The problem is that FAT32 and Ext3 are so different that it is impossible
> to convert without data loss. I would hesitate even to call FAT32 a
> filesystem; it's more of a file repository, and a pretty inefficient one at
> that.
>
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Skylar Thompson | 1 Sep 2002 18:37

Re: FAT32 to EXT3

On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 12:28:57PM -0400, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> :)  Doesn't windows have a converter from fat to ntfs?  If it does, there
> might actually be a way.  Reformatting would really be the best thing to
> do.

Partition magic can do that, but I don't believe it can convert FAT->Ext2
or NTFS->Ext2. I don't think it even recognizes Ext3 correctly yet, either.

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Jørgen Thomsen | 1 Sep 2002 20:38
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Re: FAT32 to EXT3

Sun, 1 Sep 2002 11:37:54 -0500 skrev du:

>Partition magic can do that, but I don't believe it can convert FAT->Ext2
>or NTFS->Ext2. I don't think it even recognizes Ext3 correctly yet, either.

Has anybody tried Partition Magic on an ext3 partition ? I have used it
successfully to resize ext2 partitions, but haven't dared try it on my ext3
partitions.

- Jørgen
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Skylar Thompson | 1 Sep 2002 21:21

Re: FAT32 to EXT3

On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 08:38:58PM +0200, Jørgen Thomsen wrote:
> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 11:37:54 -0500 skrev du:
> 
> >Partition magic can do that, but I don't believe it can convert FAT->Ext2
> >or NTFS->Ext2. I don't think it even recognizes Ext3 correctly yet, either.
> 
> Has anybody tried Partition Magic on an ext3 partition ? I have used it
> successfully to resize ext2 partitions, but haven't dared try it on my ext3
> partitions.

I've tried to use PM 6 on Ext3 partitions, but PM always marks them in
yellow ("Damaged partition", or soemthing like that). I'm not sure about PM
7, though.

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Sean Neakums | 1 Sep 2002 21:49

Re: FAT32 to EXT3

commence  Skylar Thompson quotation:

> I've tried to use PM 6 on Ext3 partitions, but PM always marks them
> in yellow ("Damaged partition", or soemthing like that). I'm not
> sure about PM 7, though.

Possibly the extra info in the superblock confused it.  You could
always convert to ext2, do the resize and then convert back to ext3.

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Steven N. Hirsch | 1 Sep 2002 21:48
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Re: FAT32 to EXT3

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Jørgen Thomsen wrote:

> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 11:37:54 -0500 skrev du:
> 
> >Partition magic can do that, but I don't believe it can convert FAT->Ext2
> >or NTFS->Ext2. I don't think it even recognizes Ext3 correctly yet, either.
> 
> Has anybody tried Partition Magic on an ext3 partition ? I have used it
> successfully to resize ext2 partitions, but haven't dared try it on my ext3
> partitions.

I have.  It gets mightily confused, though to their credit it bails 
without damaging anything.  IIRC, it initially thinks the filesystem is 
ext2, but throws an exception over internal data at a later point.

Steve
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karhong ng | 1 Sep 2002 18:27
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HDD duplication in RH7.3

Hi Folks,

I have an internal HDD running under RH7.3. I would like to purchse a second HDD(usb external) of same
geometry, and use it as a bootable snapshot of the first internal HDD.

I wish to make a whole disk bootable backup regularly via this method.
Is this feasible ?
How should I approach this ?
Any advice and/or documentations are greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
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Jørgen Thomsen | 1 Sep 2002 20:10
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Re: FAT32 to EXT3

Sun, 1 Sep 2002 11:37:54 -0500 skrev du:

>Partition magic can do that, but I don't believe it can convert FAT->Ext2
>or NTFS->Ext2. I don't think it even recognizes Ext3 correctly yet, either.

Has anybody tried Partition Magic on an ext3 partition ? I have used it
successfully to resize ext2 partitions, but haven't dared to try it on my ext3
partition.

- Jørgen
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Steven N. Hirsch | 2 Sep 2002 00:45
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Re: FAT32 to EXT3

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Sean Neakums wrote:

> commence  Skylar Thompson quotation:
> 
> > I've tried to use PM 6 on Ext3 partitions, but PM always marks them
> > in yellow ("Damaged partition", or soemthing like that). I'm not
> > sure about PM 7, though.
> 
> Possibly the extra info in the superblock confused it.  You could
> always convert to ext2, do the resize and then convert back to ext3.

Exactly what I ended up doing.
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