FC4 - Mounting an external HD. Am I almost there?

[Hoffmann]

--- Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:

> Hoffmann wrote:
> > --- Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 21:02 -0800, Hoffmann wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hello:
> >>>
> >>>I used the following command to mount an external
> >>
> >>HD
> >>
> >>>on my box:
> >>>
> >>># mount -t ntfs -o umask=007 /dev/sdf5
> >>>/media/HP_Personal_Media_Drive
> >>>
> >>>and I got this permission: 
> >>>dr-xr-x---   1 root root 12288 Dec  9 16:56
> >>>HP_Personal_Media_Drive
> >>>
> >>>How can I change this thing in order to have
> >>>permission (as a non-root user) for writing on
> >>
> >>that
> >>
> >>>external HD? My goal is to be able not only to
> >>
> >>read
> >>
> >>>the external HD (as I can right do now), but also
> >>
> >>move
> >>
> >>>files to it.
> >>
> >>The linux ntfs driver has very limited write
> support
> >>and won't be able
> >>to do this. There may be other ways of doing what
> >>you need though - see
> >>
> > 
> >
>
http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfs-en#3.2_can_the_driver_write_to_an_ntfs_volume_too
> > 
> >>Paul.
> >>
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> > 
> > 
> > Hi Paul,
> > 
> > Thanks for the hint. 
> > What about a partition on the external HD. Is it
> > possible to partition it? I mean, in my case, the
> > external HD has 120 GB, and the idea would be to
> keep
> > 20 GB for using it with Windows (NTFS), and 100 GB
> to
> > use with FC4.
> > Is that possible, and how?
> 
> The usual fix for this would be to reformat the disk
> as FAT32 instead of 
> NTFS, which would then be both readable and writable
> by both Windows and 
> Linux.
> 
> Partitioning it is possible, but using a different
> format is probably 
> simpler.
> 
> Paul.
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Paul:

Sorry, if my question sounds stupid. But, how can I
reformat my external HD  as FAT32?
Could you, please, tell me, or send me a reference
(webpage) for that?

Thanks!
Hoffmann

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