moylan wrote:
> hi,
>> i'm currently using win2000 and have been dabbling with some small
> linux distributions. my system currently has an 80gb hd partitioned
> into 2 32gb partitions as windows 2000 doesn't seem to like making
> fat32 partitions greater than 32gb. i didn't use ntfs as linux
> doesn't easily handle those from what i can google.
> is there a partitioning format that will give me a large single
> partition that windows and linux can share? even a separate boot
> partition for windows and linux and sharing the majority of the drive
> for data.
>
fat32 is as good a standard as you're going to find, however it seems
that to create & format a partition greater than 32Gb you'll need to use
something else to do the formatting. I'm not sure what the capabilities
of mkdosfs are on a linux box as I cant recall using it for anything
other than formating floppy disks recently :) but it's been ported to
windows to deal with the exact problem youre having,
http://www.mager.org/mkdosfs/ so I'm presuming if the port can do it
then the linux native dosfstools will do the job too. so check out the
mkdosfs manpage for the exact details.
May contain traces of nuts
Ray ...
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