Format USB HD

[Christopher Browne]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 6:16 AM, John Wildberger <wildberger-iRg7kjdsKiH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I have a 120G USB harddrive that is formatted with a NTFS filesystem. To use
> this drive with a Linux OS in read/write mode, I need this to be converted
> to a FAT32 file system.
> Any suggestion how to do this?

The usual method would be:

1.  Mount in NTFS mode;
2.  Copy all the data off to some place where you have 120G of
separate, writable storage
3.  Unmount NTFS filesystem
4.  Create FAT32 filesystem on the 120GB drive
5.  Copy the data back from the place you preserved it

You're not likely to find an "in place upgrade" mechanism; I'd be a
bit surprised if Microsoft, maker of both of those filesystems, has
one...
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