Re: [MiNT] Bad magic number?

[Michael Schwingen <rincewind@discworld.dascon.de>]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 09:50:39AM +0100, Frank Naumann wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> > And finally, an answer: No, I won't change to ext2 until there is a tool able 
> > to convert a minix partition directly to ext2.
> 
> Such a tool will be never exist, it's not possible.

Never say never ;-)

Partition magic on a PC is able to convert at least FAT/FAT32/NTFS on the
fly (not sure if the already support ext2), so with FAT and NTFS being as
similar as minix and ext2, I don't see any reasons why it should be
completely impossible (you probably won't be able to recover from a crash
that occurs during the conversion).

Yes, it is a *lot* of work since you probably need to move around a lot of
data blocks (and possibly need enough free space), and I guess you are right
that noone will write such a tool.

cu
Michael
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