On Thursday 17 March 2005 10:48, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 17 Mar 2005 09:38, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Kaj, if you have a windows boot disk, use fdisk to completely
> remove the partition, then let MCC deal with it. I've never used
> the linux fdisk, but I would have thought you could do the same
> with that.
>
> Anne
Thanks, Anne. But..eh.. I don't have Windows disk, and even if I
had, how could I get in into the external drive ?
The linux fdisk utility won't let me do anything on the drive.
Kaj Haulrich.
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