Additionally, you should also take the opportunity to defrag the
filesystem after the conversion as the change in cluster size (I'm
guessing from 64k to 4k) will leave your shiny new NTFS file system
highly fragmented.
--- Wes Williams <wes_williams@fcbonline.net> wrote:
> Type the following at the Windows command prompt (start, run, "cmd"):
>
> convert c: /fs:ntfs /v
>
> It will complain about locked files and perform the convert at the
> next
> reboot, which you should do immediately.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Joshua D.
> Drake
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:10 PM
> To: Andrus
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Why database is corrupted after re-booting
>
>
> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 19:14 +0300, Andrus wrote:
> > > To change partition types you need to re-format (resetting
> partitions
> > > will lose data structure - reformat required).
> >
> > Troy,
> >
> > Whole my IDE drive is 20 GB FAT32 C: drive booting XP
> > I have a lot of data in this drive so it is not possible to
> re-format.
> Also
> > I do'nt want to create two logical disks in single drive.
> >
> > Is this prevents data corruption for Postgres, is there some
> utility which
> > can convert C: drive to NTFS ?
> > Can Partition Magic help ?
>
> XP at least on install I believe has the ability to convert to NTFS.
>
> Have you tried just right clicking on your C: selecting properties
> and then seeing if there is a convert option?
>
> >
> > Andrus
> >
> >
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