[geeks] back to MacOS X

Greg A. Woods geeks at sunhelp.org
Mon Dec 17 19:22:27 CST 2001


[ On Monday, December 17, 2001 at 17:38:03 (-0600), Shawn Wallbridge wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: [geeks] back to MacOS X
>
> Actually NT can convert from FAT to NTFS at any time. I just realized one of
> our workstations had a FAT partition and converted it to NTFS, I installed
> Win2K a year ago.

At what cost?

I.e. if you copy a FAT filesystem to an NTFS filesystem, and then
convert the latter into an NTFS filesystem, is anything lost (or gained :-)?

I'd be completely stunned if the result were bit-for-bit identical!

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