Can we change a HDD NTFS partition into a ext4 partition, without to loss any?
How?
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2There is no known way to change ntfs to ext4. – mikewhatever Jan 09 '16 at 21:00
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4see http://askubuntu.com/questions/63022/convert-filesystem-ntfs-ext4 – Rinzwind Jan 09 '16 at 21:01
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1@mikewhatever you can from NTFS to EXT3 to EXT4 though ;-) – Rinzwind Jan 09 '16 at 21:03
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You cannot convert your NTFS partition on-the-fly to ext4 (or any other) without data loss due to the fact you have to destroy the existing partition to create a new one.
What you can do:
- Backup your data to an another drive/partition.
- Reformat the original drive/partition
- Move back your data
That's all.
Or there is an another option but I do not recommend it!
- Use anyconvertfs from anyfs-tools to convert ntfs to ext2/3
- Then you can convert it to ext4 using tune2fs.
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“partition table[s]” are entirely unrelated to the conversion of file systems. – David Foerster Jan 11 '16 at 02:28