Creating FAT32 Partition
 

I just installed Mandrake 10 an hour ago and it went without a hitch. The installer asked me to set up partitions on my second, 160 GB hard drive and I gave about 30 gigs to /home and left about 120 unformatted.

I'd like to turn that unformatted space into an independent FAT32 partition for movie and music storage so that I can get there both from Linux and from Windows. How can I do that? What utility do I use?

man mkdosfs
/FAT-size


Cheers,
Tink

I don't know the device name of my unpartitioned space, or if it has one. Is there some way to see it?

There's no device name for unpartitioned space.

Create one more partition with DiskDrake and then use mkdosfs.

Be careful. Make sure you don't mess your existing Linux partitions.

Awesome, thank you. I actually formatted it straight from DiskDrake.

How do I mount the new partition?

It depends on it's name.

Here's the command line version:

# mkdir /mnt/win
# mount -t vfat /dev/???? /mnt/win

where ???? is hda3 or hda4 or whatever the name of the newly created partition is.

I think you can mount it in DiskDrake too.
Actually I have never used Mandrake myself :)