Converting the partition type

[Jerry McAllister]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 02:14:43PM -0700, Christopher Chambers wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have an msdos partition with a large amount of data. Is there a way to
> convert to a ufs partition without having to remove the data off the
> partition first?

Not that one.
You could use one of the commercial utilities like Partition Magic to
convert to or from NTFS, but not a UNIX type.

You will have to make it a FAT type and then mount it in FreeBSD
and then read it from FreeBSD to a place in a UFS slice.   Then that
version would not be accessible in a MS system.

////jerry


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