Format USB HD

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 06:05:26AM -0400, Scott Allen wrote:
> On Tue Aug 05,2008 10:40:35 AM Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >Actually windows CAN use FAT32 larger than 30GB.  It just
> >won't create one.  Just thank Microsoft for knowing better
> >than you what you want.
> >
> >You can make a large FAT32 filesystem using linux and windows
> >will happily use it.
> 
> A few months ago I formatted a 160G external USB drive as FAT32 and 
> have no problems using it with Windows XP and Linux.
> 
> I seem to recall that I had trouble using Linux to do the formatting, 
> though. I can't remember why, and afterwards I came to the conclusion 
> that it should have worked and I just did some minor thing wrong. I 
> wish I could remember what it was :-( .
> 
> Anyway, thinking back, I believe I followed the the instructions on 
> the following page (thus using Windows to do the formatting).
> <http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm>

mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sde1 (for example)

Works fine for me.  I have done that for 80GB no problem, and I think
probably larger too.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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