[Gllug] Formatting FAT32, or writing to NTFS?

[Wolfgang Draskovic]

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On Wednesday 25 September 2002 07:59, you wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 00:28, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> > So, dear readers, is there a way of either (1) writing to ntfs partitions
> > or (2) formatting a partition to FAT32 from Linux?
>
> Why not (3) use a utility to convert from NTFS back to FAT32 such as
> PartitionMagic!!

*ugh* is this a linux tool?

mkfs -t vfat /dev/hda5 

you may mount ntfs with write-support (must be activated in the kernel).
maybe you have to rebuild your kernel.
although it is marked as dangerous I never had any problems using ntfs.

HTH
Wolfgang

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