Hi Chris, Thanks for the hint. I assumed it was not possible because disk druid refuses to create vfat partitions bigger than 2Gb. []s, Fernando Lozano > > I use vfat on RHL8/9 and FC1 to mount partitions with more than 2Gb (tried 6, 8 > > and 22Gb) from Win95, 98 and ME. No problems readgin and writing, but neither > > can create then (have to create/format using windoze). Scandisk has no complains. > > > > Assuming you want to nuke /dev/hdb1 and use FAT32 (vfat): > > # mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hdb1 > > One thing I will note about this. Real Windows doesn't always like > partitions made this way (at least for booting). I think it has to do > with cylinder boundaries. Keeping a win98 emergency boot disk around for > this purpose is a good idea. > > -- > Chris Kloiber > Red Hat, Inc.
