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formatting ntfs or fat32 from linux

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Name: catas
Date: March 19, 2003 at 15:35:41 Pacific
OS: RH 8
CPU/Ram: 500/512
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i need a way to format a 40gb hard-drive to ntfs or fat32.. i would like fat32 over ntfs... if there is anyway to do this i would really like to know.. thank you ahead of time to anyone that can help me...



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Name: Trip
Date: March 19, 2003 at 16:35:29 Pacific
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First partition the disk with fdisk or cfdisk.

Then format to fat32 with this command:

mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/hdxy

where xy above indicate drive letter and partition number, ie primary slave drive, first partition would be hdb1.


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Name: catas
Date: March 20, 2003 at 01:28:51 Pacific
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thank you very much trip for your help.. it worked great... again.. thanks


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