Re: mkfs.msdos, FAT 32 and wrong disksize

2003-10-30 Thread lorian
Lukas writes: > > I have not had > > any problems with the schedule: > > > > 1 - win fdisk 2 - linux fdisk 3 - win format (for all vfat) 4 - > > linux mkfs (for all ext2/3) > > > > My way for doing things like that: > 1 - cfdisk, partion all the disk as you want to > 2 - inst

Re: mkfs.msdos, FAT 32 and wrong disksize

2003-10-30 Thread Lukas Ruf
Hi Florian, thanks for the reply. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-30 03:06]: > > > > Dear all, > > > > don't ask why but I have to prepare a disk with FAT32. > > I won't ask ;-) , but if you happen to have also Windows on your > machine, I think I have an advice. > unfortunately

Re: mkfs.msdos, FAT 32 and wrong disksize

2003-10-29 Thread lorian
> Dear all, > > don't ask why but I have to prepare a disk with FAT32. I won't ask ;-) , but if you happen to have also Windows on your machine, I think I have an advice. To my experience, FAT32 is the only way to really share a partition between Linux and Windows (i.e., have the same acc

mkfs.msdos, FAT 32 and wrong disksize

2003-10-29 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, don't ask why but I have to prepare a disk with FAT32. The harddisk is rather large (160GB) and it should be put in some slices of about 16GB, I decided to make use of FAT32 and mount it as vfat afterwards. Working with cfdisk provides the results as expected -- at least, cfdisk consis