Change disk format?

[Gary.]

Hi,

I have eventually got the new firware communicating with my network via the Belikin 140 wireless adapter.

Must admit that there are no decent tutorials out there, it's all a bit programmer speak and it's like assumed that you have a degree in linux. Good job I used to hold a job where I did a little linux work so it helped me out. Maybe I ought to write a tutorial in plain english.

Anyway, I'm transferring a movie from PC via ftp to the WDTV's connected NTFS drive. It's agonisingly slow. I expect it's somethingto do with NTFS. So, my question: Can I convert the 1Gb disk to a native linux format? If so, can this be done without removing the files?

[rs]

do you mean 1TB drive, or do you still have the thumb drive plugged into the WDTV which is 1GB?

[recliq]

No you can't convert a NTFS filesystem to ext3 'on the fly'.
When you create a new filesystem you need to format it and to format a drive and to keep the data on the drive contradicts each other.