Very Computer

Greetings all,

     I have 3 gigs of freespace on my 12 gig HD.  I would like to
partition this space and make it available to both my Red Hat 6.1 OS and
my Win98 OS.  Therefore, it has to be a FAT32 filesystem. I can't use
fdisk in windows to do this because it doesn't recognize linux.  In
other words, windoze fdisk shows 5 gigs of free space when this is
definately not true, linux is taking up 2 gigs. I don't want to use the
win fdisk in fear of it screwing up my linux system. Cfdisk in linux
shows the proper HD setup with the correct amount of freespace, so I
would like to use this program.  My question, however, is which type of
filesystem  should I format the drive in?..it doesn't seem to write
FAT32 filesystems, only FAT16 versions.  Can I choose any FAT16 version
and write that filesystem so that windoze recongnizes it, and then
reformat the partition (new win drive) into a FAT32 from inside windoze?
How should I go about accomplishing this task without screwing anything
up?  Any help is greatly appreciated.

I thank everyone who helps in advance = )

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Quote:> windoze fdisk shows 5 gigs of free space when this is
> definately not true, linux is taking up 2 gigs.

Best bet is to get Partition Magic 5.0 or higher and
manipulate the partitions with that.  Chances are, when
you install it, it will correct any partition size errors
in Windows.  It did on my system after I messed around
with a freeware repartitioning thing in an attempt to
install Linux.  It knows about Win9x/NT, Linux and probably
OS/2 partition types and will choose partition boundaries
that are compatible.  It makes messing around with your
partitions much less stressful.  After I installed Linux
I doubled the size of my ext2 partition using it without
hosing anything, so that to me is the test of a tool worth
using.

Now if I could only get a sawbuck every time I post one
of these testimonials!  :)

I'll try to give it a rest, but aside from NT Server 4.0 that
came with a free upgrade to Windows 2000 Server it's probably
the best software buy I've made in quite a while.  (Not counting
Linux of course.  Tough to beat the price on that!) :)

--

Mike
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