File System Upgrade

From: Carl (dopie_at_ihug.co.nz)
Date: 10/05/03 

Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 11:59:37 +1300

Hi does any body know how to convert a hard drive format from fat32 to ext2
with out moving all the data off the disk, and is there much chance of data
loss?

i only using ext2 for example any linux format is cool

Thanks

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