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 ;)
--
Pedro Macedo
