I still have a 40gig HD formatted with NTFS (mounted ro)
Is there any way to convert it (safely!!) to ext2/ext3 without temporary moving the data ?
I'm aware of the existence of partition magic, but I don't have it. And frankly, I'm not going to pay for an apllication I will use once... (no, the demo version isn't functional)
Are you saying you want to *convert* the filesystem from ntfs to ext2 without damaging the data, or do you want to *resize* the partition (non-destructively) in order to make room for an additional ext2 partition?
If the former, I don't think that is possible - to change a filesystem generally requires formatting the partition to the new FS.
If the latter (which makes more sense, in light of your comment about Partition Magic), then google for it. I managed to find a demo version of software that ran from a DOS boot diskette, to resize the NTFS-5 (WinXP) partition on my laptop. This was less than 6 months ago, so it should still be available.
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