Re: need help on vfat partition

2017-12-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 16/12/2017 à 17:55, Eike Lantzsch a écrit : Long Wind's partition has type b, that is FAT32. Now making a filesystem with mkfs.vfat /dev/sda7 should make it readable and writable for WinXP. Note that Linux and mkfs.vfat do not care about the partition type id. Also mkfs.vfat is the same as

Re: need help on vfat partition

2017-12-16 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Saturday, December 16, 2017 5:13:20 PM -03 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 16/12/2017 à 11:45, Eike Lantzsch a écrit : > > On Saturday, December 16, 2017 10:10:08 AM -03 Long Wind wrote: > >> maybe the reason is the partition is too big > > > > for FAT16 or vfat yes. You need to format it as FAT32

Re: need help on vfat partition

2017-12-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 16/12/2017 à 11:45, Eike Lantzsch a écrit : On Saturday, December 16, 2017 10:10:08 AM -03 Long Wind wrote: maybe the reason is the partition is too big for FAT16 or vfat yes. You need to format it as FAT32 or NTFS. (...) PS: the choice of vfat is that IMO vfat is more cross-platform

Re: need help on vfat partition

2017-12-16 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 16-12-2017 08:10, Long Wind wrote: > i create a vfat partition at sda7 using fdisk of linux > > partition id is set to b > > then i go to XP and format it but fail Why boot Windows when Linux can create fat partitions? Install dosfstools and use the mkfs.vfat command. BTW, Windows XP is

Re: need help on vfat partition

2017-12-16 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Saturday, December 16, 2017 11:47:07 AM -03 Long Wind wrote: > Thank Eike Lantzsch!but I can't find disk manager in Windows XPmy CDROM/DVD > doesn't work the cause of failure is size too big. Sent you a link with a screenshot of WinXP with Disk Management in Administrative Tools / Computer

Re: need help on vfat partition

2017-12-16 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 12/16/2017 12:10 PM, Long Wind wrote: > i create a vfat partition at sda7 using fdisk of linux > > partition id is set to b > > then i go to XP and format it but fail > > maybe the reason is the partition is too big > > it's more than 50G

Re: need help on vfat partition

2017-12-16 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Saturday, December 16, 2017 10:10:08 AM -03 Long Wind wrote: > i create a vfat partition at sda7 using fdisk of linux > > partition id is set to b It might be best to leave the partition untouched and set it up from WXP disk manager and then formatting it. WXP disk manager recognizes the

need help on vfat partition

2017-12-16 Thread Long Wind
i create a vfat partition at sda7 using fdisk of linux partition id is set to b then i go to XP and format it but fail maybe the reason is the partition is too big it's more than 50G What should I do? Thanks! PS: the choice of vfat is that IMO vfat is more cross-platform