Re: Creating a vfat file system

1999-03-14 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Douglas Bates wrote: > /dev/hda2 was reserved for Windows NT in case I wanted > to use that at work. Eventually I decided to remove NT. I would now > like to use /dev/hda2 as a second VFAT partition. > I used cfdisk to reset the partition type to Win95 FAT32 (0B), which > is the same type as /d

Re: Creating a vfat file system

1999-03-14 Thread Alexander Stavitsky
On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 01:17:06PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: > [Please reply to me personally as well as to the list. I don't > usually have the time to keep up with this list.] There is nothing special about VFAT filesystem. You can just create regular FAT16 partition with mkdosfs form dosfst

Creating a vfat file system

1999-03-14 Thread Douglas Bates
[Please reply to me personally as well as to the list. I don't usually have the time to keep up with this list.] Is there a way within Debian GNU/Linux i386 to make a VFAT file system on a hard disk partition? Background to the question: My laptop came with Windows 98. I repartitioned keeping