hi
i have a drive i made called /Data
i made it to put my data in it
but now i want to change it to fat32 so i can use it by window$ and linux
can any body help???

You need to find out the device node of the drive first, you can't format it based on the mountpoint. If you put this drive's information into the fstab file, then just look there to see what the device is. You can also quickly scan for attached storage devices with "fdisk -l".

After you have found the drive (for example purposes, we will assume /dev/sda1, which would be the first partition on the first USB device) you would use a command like:

This would format the device to FAT32 and give it the volume name of "Data". Obviously, be sure there is nothing on this device you need before you reformat it.

you can't change the file system. (actually you can but not to fat32..)

however, if it's either ext2 or ext3 you should have no problems to mount it from windows with this or this.

reiserfs could be accessed ( but not mounted ) with http://p-nand-q.com/download/rfstool.html

Sure you can--see the post by MS3FGX. Do "man mkfs" for all the formatting options.

One of those links is to ext2fsd. I have used this with great success--although I almost never boot into Windows anymore.

My first inclination reading it was that he was asking to format it, mainly because he didn't mention an existing file system. But going over it again I can see that he may be talking about converting as well.

Clearly there is somewhat of a language barrier here, so we may need the topic creator to clarify a bit.