On Thursday 17 March 2005 05:12 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > 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. Kaj, I know this might sound dumb, but have you tried diskdrake? disk drake seems to me to be a damn well configured partittion manager tool. I never have tried to reformat a USB connected drive with it, but I would ex[ect it to handle it well. -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website="http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org";
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