Changing filesystem types "safely"

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Published on 2010-06-15T14:42:01Z Indexed on 2010/06/15 14:43 UTC
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Back in Windows 95 OSR2 (I believe), there was a conversion tool that would take your extant FAT16 partition and change it to FAT32 non-destructively (most of the time).

Are there any tools like that now for going from one file system type to another in situ without destroying the data?

For example, from etx3 to ext4? Or NTFS to XFS?

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