Reformat an NTFS disk to FAT32? (You don't have to live w/ FAT)

[Coleman Kane]

On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 17:31 -0400, Alex Hewitt wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 16:40 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt at verizon.net> wrote:
> > >  Now that I think about this, all that I want is a format that I can read
> > >  and write to for the WinXP machines that I have to live with and with
> > >  linux.
> > 
> >   Ah, then yah, FAT32 is likely your best bet.  That seems to have
> > become the "lingua franca" for filesystem interoperability.
> > 
> > > Unfortunately when I received the disk it already was preformatted
> > > NTFS.
> > 
> >   I'd say your best bet is to change the partition type of the
> > existing partition to 0x0C using fdisk, and then format it using
> > mkdosfs.
> 
> Believe it or not, if you want a > 32 GB partition you need to do it
> with Linux or a manufacturer supplied utility (Western Digital provides
> one for some of their 2.5 external hard drives). Microsoft doesn't
> believe you should be using > 32 GB FAT32 partitions even though the
> file system will support operations much greater.
> 
> -Alex
> 

If you guys don't know already, there's an NTFS driver based upon FUSE
that's supposed to be really good (read/write in Linux and
Ownership/Permission support):

http://www.ntfs3g.org/

-- 
Coleman Kane
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