making a new FAT32 partition...?

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 08:31, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> hello,
> i have 40 GB of unused, unpartitioned hard drive space.  how can i partition
> it as FAT32 (or VFAT, which is better?) and format it?  i dual boot winxp
> and FC2 and i ultimately want this partition to be my /home dir in FC2 and
> also show up in winxp as my D: drive or something.
> 
> also, is there a better format that is both usable by linux and windows?  i
> know linux can't write to NTFS very well, but can windows handle ext3 well?
> 
> thanks for the help.
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I wouldn't recommend this for a /home partition since it won't recognize
Linux permissions but to answer your question....

man mkfs 

Craig