[Gllug] Formatting FAT32, or writing to NTFS?

[Stephen Harker]

On Wednesday 25 September 2002 9:47 am, Wolfgang Draskovic wrote:
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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?
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> > Why not (3) use a utility to convert from NTFS back to FAT32 such as
> > PartitionMagic!!
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> *ugh* is this a linux tool?
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> mkfs -t vfat /dev/hda5
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> 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.

EEEK! Don't use the RW support for NTFS (at least in 2.2 - 2.4 kernels anyway) 
because it SERIOUSLY hosed the filesystem when I tried to use it a while back 
(see thread from April or May or so)

and I think the you need to tell mkdosfs to build a 32 bit FAT
so its
# mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hda5
add a -c if you want it to check for dodgy sectors

Steve

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