[CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

Tue Jan 29 18:52:01 UTC 2008
MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com>

On Jan 29, 2008 7:57 AM, Dogsbody <dan at dogsbody.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I feel this is the most simple question but I am currently going around
> and round in circles and searches keep bringing me up Windows tools!! :-(
>
> I have a 512MB USB drive that has a 12MB FAT16 partition on it.  How can
> I resize this 12MB partition to grow and fill the whole 512MB drive?
>

AFAIK, there is no way to "resize" any FAT partition.  You have to
delete both partitions and then create a new one.

That's all.

mhr