I've just got my hands on a 160 GB external USB hard disk.
Now, this thing comes preformatted with a FAT32 (vfat) file system.
When I unmount the thing I can't reformat the drive with a decent 
file system like ReiserFS, JFS, ext2 or ext3 from be it the MCC or 
by hand.  I can't even re-partition it with FAT32 ?

So here it goes :  will this FAT32 file system become fragmented 
over time like any other Windows file system ?

If yes, how to defrag it ?

Or, will I have to move the FS to another drive back-and-forth in 
order to defrag ?

TIA

Kaj Haulrich. 
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*Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free workstation*
        *Running Linux Mandrake 10.1* 

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