ntfs to fat32

[FishBoy]

is that safe to do or are there possibilities that the process might fail and i lose all my data? im gonna convert it with partition magice 8.0 coz ubuntu doesn't seem to be seeing my disk which is ntfs

 

[ming]

Always safer to make a backup of everything before you change the format/size/partition of a drive. There's always a 50/50 chance that you might lose something in the process.

 

[FishBoy]

do you guys think that the reason my disk isn't showing on ubuntu is because it's ntfs?

 

[ming]

check their FAQ
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/LinuxFilesystemsExplained/view?searchterm=ntfs

 

[FishBoy]

cool so linux supports all file systems except for NTFS it only reads off that, but it doesn't explain why my ubuntu doens't see my ntfs at all, i can only see it in the device manager it has

 

[Xie]

cool so linux supports all file systems except for NTFS it only reads off that, but it doesn't explain why my ubuntu doens't see my ntfs at all, i can only see it in the device manager it has

I believe NTFS support is mainly supported in 2.6 kernel and Ubuntu either isn't running 2.6 or just didn't compile in support for it. Also NTFS -> FAT32 is a bad idea. You would have to backup data, format the drive NTFS and transfer data back.

 

[j79zlr]

http://www.j79zlr.com/howto.php?id=20

 

[FishBoy]

I believe NTFS support is mainly supported in 2.6 kernel and Ubuntu either isn't running 2.6 or just didn't compile in support for it. Also NTFS -> FAT32 is a bad idea. You would have to backup data, format the drive NTFS and transfer data back.

well i usually find out by experimenting i did that backup stuff and forgot that fat only takes files up to 5gb.... stupid file system so now i have to find a way to get all my files to stay on that disk and be able to use ntfs normally with ubuntu

edit:

http://www.j79zlr.com/howto.php?id=20

and yet this is what that link is for thx i'll try that when i boot in ubuntu

 

[vern]

The default kernel in Ubuntu might not support NTFS, but I haven't checked. You might also have to mount it manually.