On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 08:31, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > hello, > i have 40 GB of unused, unpartitioned hard drive space. how can i partition > it as FAT32 (or VFAT, which is better?) and format it? i dual boot winxp > and FC2 and i ultimately want this partition to be my /home dir in FC2 and > also show up in winxp as my D: drive or something. > > also, is there a better format that is both usable by linux and windows? i > know linux can't write to NTFS very well, but can windows handle ext3 well? > > thanks for the help. ----- I wouldn't recommend this for a /home partition since it won't recognize Linux permissions but to answer your question.... man mkfs Craig
