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
