How do I convert FAT32 to ext3 ?

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Terry Linhardt wrote:
> I have acquired a disk formatted as FAT32. I would like to convert it to 
> ext3. It would be appreciated if someone can give me a quick summary of 
> the steps involved (or point me to some documentation. The disk is USB, 
> and the OS does "see" it.

You can't convert it.  You need to move data somewhere else, redo the 
file system as ext3 (mkfs -j), and copy the data back to it.  FAT32 and 
ext3 are completely different file systems.  It is unlikely there's a 
tool that does conversion. (as a side note, even NTFS (where such 
conversion is possible) that was converted from FAT/FAT32 is not exactly 
the same thing as "native" NTFS).

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