On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 20:22 -0400, Luther Woodrum wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Allen wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 11:05 -0400, Jim Hartley wrote: > >> Migrating the files shouldn't be that bad. Go to the Win box and ZIP > >> everything into one huge file, then FTP it across to the Linux box (make > >> sure you have an FTP server running on Linux, Windoze generally has an > >> FTP client, so initiate the transfer from Win). Then put the ZIP file > >> where you want the root of the DOS file tree and UNZIP it. > >> > >> Jim Hartley > >> > > > > Actually, my "huge effort" of migrating files from FAT to ext3 may > > actually be trivial. My main PC is multiboot containing Fedora, Ubuntu, > > and WinXP. I have a 30 GB FAT partition. It is 40% full and contains > > tens of thousands of files. I also have a 30 GB ext3 data partition > > (which I mount as "large_downloads"). If I run Linux, I can use a file > > manager such as KDE Dolphin and just do a copy of my FAT partition into > > my ext3 partition. It might take many hours to complete but I believe it > > would accomplish the migration. > > To move the contents of a directory, or if it is a partion, then mount it > on a directory e.g. mount -t vfat /dev/hdxx /from. Mount the target > directory or partition e.g. mount -t ext3 /dev/hdyy /to. > cd /from; tar -cf - . |(cd /to; tar -xf -;) > > > Thanks everyone for the replies.
Earlier in the thread, Sean suggested that for network mounting my fat32 partition, I look into Samba. I ended up doing that, and it works! I can not only mount the partition (as I could do with NFS) I can also view the files. _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 7 - Web Hack-a-thon - SUNY Newpaltz Apr 1 - EC2 and Cloud Computer May 6 - TBD
