On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 10:31, 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? > Linux cannot reliably write to ntfs at all. > thanks for the help. > For information use man mkfs, and man fdisk. Use fdisk, make the partition vfat (type b ), then format as vfat (use mkfs.vfat) You then will have a partition that can be used by XP and Linux with no problems from either.
