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.
>> thanks in advance,
> moylan
>windos won't create FAT32 partitions greater than 32GB
(to encourage people to move to NTFS).
But it can read FAT32 partitions larger than this
created in linux for example with something like:
mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/your/partition.
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