Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
file-system and format problem
Name: zhuqing Date: October 7, 2004 at 12:36:59 Pacific OS: Windows XP and Linux CPU/Ram: Pentuim4, 256M
Comment:
I have a Western Digital usb external hard drive with NTFS file-system. But I cannot copy any files from linux to this drive, so is the NTFS file-system read-only in Linux? What should I do? Can I format this externa hard drive in the Linux to Fat32 file-system and how? Thanks a lot for your help!
Name: 3Dave Date: October 8, 2004 at 00:31:50 Pacific
Reply:
FAT is normally the best way to go for sharing files between windoze and GNU/Linux. Unless you use captive (http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/) write support to NTFS is limited and can cause data loss. If you want to format the drive to FAT (after backing up any important data!) you can use the command mkdosfs, eg: # mkdosfs /dev/hdd1
0
Response Number 2
Name: zhuqing Date: October 8, 2004 at 08:15:49 Pacific
Reply:
Thank you first. I tried to use mkdosfs /dev/hdd1 to format my external hard drive, but the system told me "Attempting to create a too large file system". My hard drive is 80G, so this size of hard drive can cause the problem? What shoudld I do now?
0
Response Number 3
Name: 3Dave Date: October 13, 2004 at 04:08:03 Pacific
Reply:
You need to tell mkdosfs to format using 32 bit as opposed to 12 or 16 if you want to format partitions over 2Gb in size. You can do this with the -F switch, eg: # mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hdd1
Summary: Hello friends. I wanna Install Linux 7.3 on my PC but I have some partitions formatted in NTFS file system... NowI have a Question : Does Linux 7.3 like such older versions can not recognize NTFS file...
Summary: I was wondering if JFS is a decent file system. I have successfully installed MDK 9.1, and I decided to use JFS instead of ext3. I have noticed that boottime is indeed faster, but I was sondering if...
Summary: Boot from the Linux install CD. During the install you will have to delete the existing partition(s), reallocate them as Linux file systems, and format them. For you case, probably need 3 partitions:...
0 
Lnx4win ?
