On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 10:31, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
hello,
i have 40 GB of unused, unpartitioned hard drive space. how can i partition
it as FAT32 (or VFAT, which is better?) and format it? i dual boot winxp
and FC2 and i ultimately want this partition to be my /home dir in FC2 and
also show up in winxp as my D: drive or something.
also, is there a better format that is both usable by linux and windows? i
know linux can't write to NTFS very well, but can windows handle ext3 well?
Linux cannot reliably write to ntfs at all.
thanks for the help.
For information use man mkfs, and man fdisk.
Use fdisk, make the partition vfat (type b ), then format as vfat (use
mkfs.vfat)
You then will have a partition that can be used by XP and Linux with no
problems from either.