[Gllug] Formatting FAT32, or writing to NTFS?

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Wed Sep 25 10:00:39 UTC 2002


> 
> >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.

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