Creating FAT32 Partition

glume · 04-15-2004, 11:21 PM

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?

Tinkster · 04-15-2004, 11:46 PM

man mkdosfs
/FAT-size

Cheers,
Tink

glume · 04-16-2004, 02:06 AM

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

Mr.Bill.Gates · 04-16-2004, 02:20 AM

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.

glume · 04-16-2004, 02:26 AM

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

How do I mount the new partition?

Mr.Bill.Gates · 04-16-2004, 02:37 AM

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