[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > FAT32 does not appear to be just a new partition type, which can coexist > with FAT16 & Linux partitions. > Both utilities I tried (Win95 FDISK & Maxtor Maxblast) required either all > FAT32 or no FAT32, and Linux FDISK was then unable to add any Linux/FAT16 > partitions, once there was a FAT32 partition. > > A comment in the PartitionMagic blurb > (www.powerquest.com/press/pm4ships.html) also seems to indicate that FAT32 > takes over the entire hard drive: > For those consumers > who find themselves with a > FAT32 partition when they buy a > new drive, PartitionMagic can > convert FAT32 partitions to > FAT16 partitions so that > users can continue to use other > operating systems and > utilities. > > Does anyone know how to mix FAT32/FAT16/Linux partitions on a single hard > drive? > > I want to do this because my 99.9%-full 1.2GB FAT16 partition expanded to > 1.6GB when I copied it to a 2GB FAT16 partition(due to a larger cluster > size, I guess), but took only 800MB on a FAT32 partition. >
I have used PartitionMagic to mix fat16/fat32 partitions on the same drive on two different computers - one with a WD ide and the other with a Quantum ide. I had no problems what so ever. For example one with four partitions was formatted like this: /dev/hda1 linux swap /dev/hda2 ext2 (Linux /) /dev/hda3 fat32 (windows c:) /dev/hda4 fat16 (mounted as d: in windows, and /dosd in Linux) -- ------------------------------------ Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux user. ------------------------------------
