formatting an flash drive

[Gregory Nowak]

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Since you seem to insist on using windows here, you'd probably want to
use diskpart, and make the first partition be a ntfs partition on the
first 1G of the flash disk, leaving the rest empty. Then, reboot, and
format the first partition from my computer. Actually, since the first
partition would be 1G in size, you could probably use fat32 if you
wanted to. Then of course, reboot into gnu/linux, partition the rest
with cfdisk as linux native, reboot I suppose, and run mke2fs on it.

A far better way in my opinion would be to do all your partitioning
with cfdisk from gnu/linux, and then run mke2fs on the linux
partition, and either run mkntfs/mkdosfs from gnu/linux on the first, or
format it from within windows as ntfs or fat32.

Greg


On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 04:03:50PM -0500, Glenn Ervin wrote:
> Hello All,
> Right now, I am using Windows and I have
> a 2 GB flash drive.
> I would like to format the first GB for Linux and the other GB for DOS, 
> probably FAT32.
> I have a beta version of Partition Magic, 5.5 on my computer now, but I have 
> not been able to find the flash drive with PM.
> Is there a good freeware anyware for this task?
> Thanks
> 
> 
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