Re: [PLUG] Converting FAT32 partition to NTFS without data loss ?

2012-04-05 Thread gauravs joshi
1. Do NOT convert your Linux partition to FAT32. Do NOT convert it to NTFS. Don't do it! It won't work! For Linux to run, it needs to be run on a file system capable of handling Unix style file permissions. Neither FAT32 nor NTFS support them. 2. Try using QTParted instead of Partition Magic to

[PLUG] Converting FAT32 partition to NTFS without data loss ?

2012-04-03 Thread neelesh sahu
Hi Plug, I have installed linux-mint on my portable 500 GB HDD drive with following configuration ext4: 30GB linux-swap: 2 GB fat32: 435 GB Now, everything is working fine except VMware because fat32 partition didn't support filesize 4 GB, hence not able to run bigger operating system in