On Nov 29, 2007 9:23 AM, Saurabh Sharma <luckysharma11 at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All > > I've just shifteed over to linux,form Windows.I 'm having 5 partations > for use by my windows XP Professional and another one by linux.The > partation table is as shown : > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > [root at localhost6 ~]# fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/hdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdc1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hdc2 1276 30400 233946562+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hdc5 1276 7649 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hdc6 7650 14023 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hdc7 14024 20397 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hdc8 20398 26771 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hdc9 26772 26784 104391 83 Linux > /dev/hdc10 26785 28059 10241406 83 Linux > /dev/hdc11 28060 28124 522081 82 Linux swap / Solaris > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > I want to convert my NTFS partations /dev/hdc5 ,/dev/hdc6 ,/dev/hdc7 > ,/dev/hdc8 over to FAT32,so that they can be accessible to me in both > Windows and LINUX environments.I googled a lot for the same and found > that in windows i'll have to delete all the partitions and recreate > themin FAT32 format,but the limitation over here is that windows just > allows a FAT32 partition to be at most of 32GB and i don't want to > breakup my disk any more,can anyone please help me out with some way in > the linux environment,to do the desired. > Thanks to all,and please help me and LINUX grow. > You can access (read/write) NTFS partitions from Linux: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFSPartitions Akemi