[Glastonbury] NTFS -> FAT32

tim hall tech at glastonburymusic.org.uk
Tue Nov 30 12:45:21 GMT 2004


I'm having enormous problems trying to write a FAT32 filesystem to a 20G HD 
that used to have NTFS on it. I think I successfully wiped it using a 
combination of fdisk/cfdisk and then just writing (dd) a whole bunch of zeros 
into the start of the drive. However, if I now try mkfs.vfat I'm told that 
I'm trying to create too large a file system, even if I break it down to two 
10G partitions. Any suggestions?

I need to dump about 14G of archive stuff on it (mostly Windows generated) and 
be able to read it under both WinXP and Debian.

cheers

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk



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