Format USB HD

[William Muriithi]

John,

I wouldn´t advice formatting 120GB with FAT32. I went that way once
and it worked alright with Linux, but had issue being seen by its
native platform - Window. I hear there is a maximum limit Windows
expect FAT to grow to. If you insist on going FAT, use a couple of
partitions. That will work. Or just us ntfs-3g with your current
disto.

Regards,
William


2008/8/2 Stephen <stephen-d-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>:
> James Knott wrote:
>>
>> John Wildberger 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?
>>>  John
>>
>> You'd use the same method you'd use for any hard drive.  The details
>> depend on the distro.
>
> The latest Ubuntu distribution supports NTFS
>
> Maybe John's distro does as well.
>
> Stephen
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