ext2 and fat16?

[Lai Zit Seng]

On Fri, 27 May 2005, Frank Chen wrote:

> How much difference is there between ext2 and fat16
> file systems? One of my Linux partitions is in fat16.
> I was able to mount it as ext2 and modify files and
> directories. Is it possible to convert it from fat16
> to ext2 without losing the data?

Are you sure you successfully mounted a FAT16 as Ext2? You're probably 
mistaken :)

Regards,

.lzs
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