you need convert.exe
I believe it was written by microsoft but is an unsuported utility. there
is a drive converteer wizard with win98 which does this also.
It can't be done by just changing the filesystem type. anyway why would you
want to do that. it shoudln't trash yr linux
cheerio
Robin
"Madhurjya P. Bora" wrote:
> How to safely move into a Fat-32 file system from a Fat-16 one? In my
> machine, I fave Fat-16 filesystem, in which I am duel booting into
> Win'95 and Linux (RedHat 6.1). The Win'95 resides in the primary
> partition and Linux on extended partitions. If I use fdisk/cfdisk on
> linux to change the file system type to Fat-32, will I permenanlt trash
> my machine. I don't bother about trashing my Windows, but if my Linux
> partition becomes unusuable, I will be in a dead fix!
>
> What is the safest way to do it without ever reinstalling the Linux
> part? Will appreciate any suggestion.
>
> Madhurjya
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