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

[Jefferson Kirkland]

I would be interested in hearing if anyone has had any luck with this driver
as I loaded it on someone's laptop a couple weeks ago and followed the
instructions for mounting and when all was said and done, writing was still
not working.

Regards,

Jeff



On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Coleman Kane <cokane at cokane.org> wrote:

> 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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