Partitioning tool in linux

joeman3429 · 10-05-2005, 12:44 AM

Hello, I have a disk that I want to make read/writable by both windows xp and my fedora install. It is currently NTFS, but I want to format it into fat32. I can't find a partitioning tool. I looked around the menus and I don't see anything.
Can I access the tool I used to format my disks when I installed FC4, Disk Druid I think its called.
Is there another nice, simple easy partitioning tool like Disk Druid I should use?

Advice, anyone? Thanks

Liakoni · 10-05-2005, 01:26 AM

There is qparted .

Ahmed · 10-05-2005, 02:25 AM

It's QTParted btw.. Very useful tool

-A

Liakoni · 10-05-2005, 02:57 AM

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Originally posted by Ahmed
It's QTParted btw.. Very useful tool

-A

It's QTParted not qparted.
My mistake...

joeman3429 · 10-05-2005, 10:02 AM

Thanks, it works great. One more question.
How do I access the Fat32 partition from linux now that I've created it? I thought you look in the /dev folder, but I didn't see anyhting. The drive is sdb1, if that makes any difference.

TruongAn · 10-05-2005, 10:32 AM

If you are using Fedora (you say so in your profile) you can use hwbrowser to see
where the partition is? and the use mount to access it.

tredegar · 10-05-2005, 12:14 PM

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How do I access the Fat32 partition from linux now that I've created it?

I hope you remembered to format the partition once you had created it.
man mkfs.msdos

HTH

joeman3429 · 10-05-2005, 09:18 PM

Thanks for the help everyone. It's working fine. My life can now operate 80% of the time in linux thanks to this shared drive.