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Creating a DOS partition in Linux
Name: Latha Date: October 17, 2001 at 03:08:13 Pacific
Comment:
Hi, Is it possible to create a DOS partition in my HDD from linux?. If so, how will I do it?
Name: wait3r Date: October 17, 2001 at 05:23:29 Pacific
Reply:
sure you can create one.
use fdisk /dev/hda (or whatever your drive is)
create the new partition if needed, then type 't', and select 6 for fat16, b for win95 fat32 etc. (L for list). then 'w' to commit changes. mkfs should be able to format it for you, man 8 mkfs, mkfs -t vfat or something.
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