That is not entirely true. You can change the partition type from 83 (Linux
Native) to b (Win95 FAT32), or whatever is appropriate. The Linux fdisk
will do this. Then you can format it. The Linux mkfs command can be used to
format an MS-DOS partition, but i have not tried it.
"Thomas M. Albright" wrote:
> You can't format a linux partition, you have to delete it. Then create a
> winblowz partition and format that.
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Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org
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