I am using the version of parted which either came with my Linux distribution, Fedora Core 3, or was installed later by my updating that distribution. (I can't remember which.) The parted version number shown when I query it is 1.6.15-5.
Following are details regarding my second hard drive, on which Fedora Core 3 lives: Disk /dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 14 4672 37423417+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb3 4673 4800 1028160 83 Linux /dev/hdb4 4801 4865 522112+ 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 4801 4865 522081 82 Linux swap When I installed Fedora Core 3, I tried to make what turned out to be hdb3 have a vfat filesystem. For reasons which I don't understand, that didn't happen. Instead, I got an ext3 filesystem. I wanted to have a vfat partition on my second hard drive because I understood that, in that way, files in that partition could be shared by Fedora Core 3 and by Windows Professional XP, the latter living on my first hard drive, where it uses the NTFS filesystem. I've read the info document for my version of parted and it seems to me that I could change the filesystem on hdb3 from ext3 to vfat simply by doing, as root: # parted /dev/hdb mkfs 3 fat32 However, I'm quite nervous about this all, since I'm very much a beginner at Linux, and so I have three questions: 1. Am I right to think that I can change the filesystem on hdb3 from ext3 to vfat simply by issuing the above command? 2. Is my making that change likely to affect adversely anything on hdb? 3. If the answer to 1 is yes and the answer to 2 is no, will Windows recognise hdb3 once it's got a vfat filesystem on it or is there something else I need to do, either beforehand or even instead of what I'm thinking of doing? I'd be very grateful for any advice. This message was sent through MyMail http://www.mymail.com.au _______________________________________________ Bug-parted mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
