On Sunday 15 February 2004 22:40, Rumen Yotov wrote: > On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 21:27, Ciortea Cristian wrote: > > I'm trying to import my data from windows to linux. Is there a way > > to convert a fat32 partition to ANY linux fs ? I have about 3 partitions > > of 20, 10 and 20GB and i have to get a extra harddisk in order > > to convert ... so i was wondering if there is ANY way to do it ... > > But thinking of the major differences of the filesystems it's probably > > not... Any suggestions ? > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > Hi, > I think you can't do it /convert from fat32 to linuxfs/. > Do you need all three fat32 partitions? Are they full of something? > If you could gather all your data in 1 or 2 you could use the third and > install Linux on it. After that there is no problem to mount fat32 and > fetch the data to Linux. > Usually i backup only the data not the system files /OS/. Most secure > way is first to write your data to CDs if it isn't too much of course. > Hope this helps. > Rumen. Gentoo is installed .. i needed to migrate those 3 partitions to reiserfs. Guess i'll need another harddisk and then use the 3 glasses rule...
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