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aridhol Guru
Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 509 Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 10:28 am Post subject: What FS for shared partition with Windows XP and Dualboot |
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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. _________________ 72 of Pitcairn Islands 49 inhabitants use Seti@Home
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scootersmk Apprentice
Joined: 17 May 2003 Posts: 186 Location: Knoxville, TN
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:02 am Post subject: |
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Windows XP will do FAT32 but you have to partition the drive to <=32 GB then the option to format in fat32 will appear. _________________ Long live the gentoo forums!!!!! |
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aridhol Guru
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:07 am Post subject: |
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Ok, if I want 70-80 GB... what then? _________________ 72 of Pitcairn Islands 49 inhabitants use Seti@Home
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scootersmk Apprentice
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:18 am Post subject: |
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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? _________________ Long live the gentoo forums!!!!! |
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aridhol Guru
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:24 am Post subject: |
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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 _________________ 72 of Pitcairn Islands 49 inhabitants use Seti@Home
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aridhol Guru
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Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2003 11:35 am Post subject: |
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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
[/Edit] _________________ 72 of Pitcairn Islands 49 inhabitants use Seti@Home
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