What FS for shared partition with Windows XP and Dualboot

aridhol

I'm now in links busy installing and I'm gonna need a shared partition between WinXP and Gentoo, and I figured FAT32 was just the thing, but WinXP refuses to format the partition (only shows NTFS as a choice). I heard that there was some way to read ext2 and ext3 partitions in windows but the sollutions I found have not been transparant and/or free. Any help would be greatly apreciated.
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scootersmk · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:02 am Post subject:

Windows XP will do FAT32 but you have to partition the drive to <=32 GB then the option to format in fat32 will appear.
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aridhol · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:07 am Post subject:

Ok, if I want 70-80 GB... what then?
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scootersmk · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:18 am Post subject:

Two options:

(1)FAT32(windows)-If have to format the drive with windows you will have to split the 70-80 GB into 3 different partitions of no more than 32 GB each.

(2)if you can wait an format the shared drive with linux or another program such as partition magic I think they can create partitions(FAT32 or vfat) that are greater than 32GB. Then you would not have so many partitions.

Not sure what your exact situations is so I am not sure of what possibilities you have?
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aridhol · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:24 am Post subject:

Ok. I can format it with Linux, no problem. I'm not sure how to though.
mkfs.fat should work, but I seem to recall that defaults to fat16... I'm gonna go read some man-pages

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aridhol · Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:35 am Post subject:

Well, solutions is wonderful

emerge dosfstools
mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/hda4

Works lovely... don\t know yet if it works in windows though... I'll get back to ya

[Edit]
Works like a charm
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