Ubuntu :: Convert External Drives From Fat32 To Ext3 Without Loss Of Data?

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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Ubuntu :: External HDD FAT32 To NTFS With No Data Loss

Nov 18, 2010

I have a 1TB External HD that at the time of purchasing was used with my PS3 which only allowed FAT32 HDs. But now I am using it for other uses. I have came across the problem of the file size limit of 4gb that FAT32 has.The problem is I have about 200 GB filled of data on this HDD and wish to convert it to NTFS with no data being lossed. Is this possible and if so how?

Edit: BTW no Microsoft just Ubuntu

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Feb 9, 2010

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Apr 11, 2011

1. Is this possible without loosing the data on the external harddrive?

2. How is it done?

3. WIll I be able to read and write on both Ubuntu and OS X 10.6? (like I can now)

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Dec 22, 2010

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Oct 6, 2009

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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 13, 2011

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After exhaustive googling [I know we all say that] I found an instruction:
Code:
pax -rw -s '/[*?:]/_/gp' stuff /fat32/partition
that changes the name of the files, replacing said characters with '_', but whilst I can get pax from my repos, I really don't want to 'archive' the files - since I understand that pax was created to bridge a war between tar and cpio - because I want to be able to read the html files on an old (not connected to the Internet) WinXP tablet. So, I believe that I need to create a script, that scans all the filenames, greps and seds to replace said 'unacceptable' characters. I am assuming that Firefox on the Tablet PC will be able to open the htmls if I can get them onto the thumb drive. Are there any other known characters in filenames that M$ file systems can't handle?

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Mar 4, 2011

I am tryiing to recover data on an iPod Classic hard drive which will not sync anymore with iTunes. I pulled the drive and connected it directly to the usb port on my Ubuntu system.

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