making a new FAT32 partition...?
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Sep 1 21:28:08 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 10:31, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> hello,
> i have 40 GB of unused, unpartitioned hard drive space. how can i partition
> it as FAT32 (or VFAT, which is better?) and format it? i dual boot winxp
> and FC2 and i ultimately want this partition to be my /home dir in FC2 and
> also show up in winxp as my D: drive or something.
>
> also, is there a better format that is both usable by linux and windows? i
> know linux can't write to NTFS very well, but can windows handle ext3 well?
>
Linux cannot reliably write to ntfs at all.
> thanks for the help.
>
For information use man mkfs, and man fdisk.
Use fdisk, make the partition vfat (type b ), then format as vfat (use
mkfs.vfat)
You then will have a partition that can be used by XP and Linux with no
problems from either.
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