Ubuntu / Apple :: Save Dir In Ext3 Originally Written To Fat32?
Jan 1, 2011
I have 50 gigs worth of raw Digital Performer sd2 files originally saved on a fat32 external hd.
I don't have a spare fat32 laying around but I do have an ext3 disk (I run ubuntu 8.04 at home).
I have a feeling that saving these files to ext3 will render them unusable if they're ever transferred back to fat32.
I swear I've been burned by this before.
What would you do here?
Tar them first? A friggin dmg file?
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Feb 25, 2011
I have 2 external drives that I'm using for movies and they're both formatted to fat32. The problem I'm experiencing now is that some of the high quality mkv files are not able to be moved to the drive because of fat32's limitations.
I'd like to convert to ext3 (or 4) and I wanted to check to see if I can do it without having to reformat and without loss of data.
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Code:
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Quote:
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Code:
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Code:
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