Can I change a linux swap partition to a file system without losing data?

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Published on 2011-11-30T16:13:48Z Indexed on 2011/12/01 2:21 UTC
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so I am using ubuntu 11.10, just changed from windows to ubuntu, and one of my file systems, I accidentally set it up as a linux swap partition and now I want to acces my files, as I did in windows, but I do not know any secure way to change that partition to a file system without formating it and loosing the data.

Because I do not want to loose the data I have there. Does deleting the partition and mounting it again solve the problem?

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