[FC5] Change file system & merge drive without lossing data???

Vijay Gill vijay.s.gill at gmail.com
Tue Oct 17 16:22:47 UTC 2006


On 17/10/06, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have one 40GB drive and this is where I have my FC5 installed.
> Besides, I have another drive 30GB drive, which I partitioned into
> 20GB(movies) and 10GB(mp3) vfat (FAT32) filesystem. It is almost full.
> Obviously the reason for VFAT is so that I can use it with Windows
> machine but I want to change the file system of this drive to ext3 and
> merge them into one partition (single drive single partition) to use
> it solely with my FC5.
>
> ====================
> 20GB + 10GB = 30GB single drive and (ext3 file system)
> ====================
>
> I know backing up is the good practice but I have no extra drive to
> backup my files. So may be I need to change this first two drive into
> ext3 and then merge them together.
>
> is it possible what I am thinking of???
>
Backing up to another media, converting the filesystem and restoring
is the only way AFAIK. I wanted to do the same some time ago and could
not find any tool to do so. The tools you mentioned help in
partitioning/resiging partitions but do not help in the current
scenario.
Vijay
Vijay




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