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 -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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