[Gllug] Formatting FAT32, or writing to NTFS?

[Jonathan Harker]

Hi folks,

Actually I was going to unsub, but I'm still here!

A long complicated story, but basically I had bestowed upon me a new workstation with XP on a 
20GB ntfs partition (hda1), and a blank 60GB ntfs partition for stuff (hda5). One of the first 
things I did was stick Mandrake 8.2 on it (hda6+, which resized the blank ntfs to 45GB or so). I 
have 40GB of my own stuff on a reiserfs disk (hdb5) that I want to stick on the blank ntfs 
partition, because I need some of it in Windows.

And lo, ntfs mounts readonly. "No worries," says I, "I'll reformat it to FAT32." Behold my 
indignation when the disk mgmt thingo in Windows XP only allowed formatting in NTFS. 
"Curses!" I said.

So, dear readers, is there a way of either (1) writing to ntfs partitions or (2) formatting a 
partition to FAT32 from Linux?

Luv Jon.

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Jonathan Harker
www.jonathanharker.co.uk
 



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