[Gllug] Formatting FAT32, or writing to NTFS?

[Stephen Harker]

On Wednesday 25 September 2002 11:00 am, Andrew Halliwell wrote:
> > >So, dear readers, is there a way of either (1) writing to ntfs
> > >partitions or (2) formatting a partition to FAT32 from Linux?
> >
> > 	mkfs -t vfat /dev/hda5
>
> One problem with this...
>
> :)
>
> Windows 2000 can't read FAT32 partitions above 32 gig.
> That's probably why it wouldn't allow him to create the FAT32 filesystem on
> the partition in the first place.

Well thats not true because I have a perfectly readable (in WinXP anyway) 45 
GB Fat32 Partition at home no probs :-)
I think it's more likely to be Windows trying to get everyone on to NTFS and 
off FAT.

Steve

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