[Lvlug] Fw: Re: reformat from the standard FAT 32 to NTFS for USB, HDD

[Glen Hartzell]

--- On Sun, 8/2/09, Glen Hartzell <ghhartzell at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Glen Hartzell <ghhartzell at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Lvlug] reformat from the standard FAT 32 to NTFS for USB, HDD
> To: "John Mc" <jmcneill2 at earthlink.net>, "The Las Vegas Linux Users Group" <lvlug at lvlug.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 10:20 AM
> gparted will do this, it should work
> under KDE without any problem. Just make sure you are
> formatting the right drive. You need to make sure you're
> looking at that USB drive so as not to format a fixed disk.
> The other way to be absolutely sure would be to unplug your
> fixed disks and boot your system with gparted live CD. That
> way, the only drive available to the partitioner would be
> the USB one.
> 
> ...Glen
> 
> --- On Sun, 8/2/09, John Mc <jmcneill2 at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: John Mc <jmcneill2 at earthlink.net>
> > Subject: [Lvlug] reformat from the standard FAT 32 to
> NTFS for USB, HDD
> > To: lvlug at lvlug.org
> > Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 4:16 AM
> > Does anyone have any experience with
> > the formatting process on those rather large USB,
> HDDs? A
> > friend supplied the code needed to reformat from the
> > standard FAT 32 to NTFS, which I believe to be even
> more
> > useful for modern purposes.
> > 
> > Is this advisable, that is to change the standard
> format on
> > those USB, HDDs, to ntfs? I use Linux Mint exclusively
> for
> > generating the files that would go on the USB HDDs,
> but I
> > would like those windows people that I know to be able
> to
> > plug my USB, HDD into their XP systems if it should
> be
> > required. In particular, I am interested in keeping
> the
> > auto-run/mount feature that comes on these USB, HDDs,
> so the
> > mount and Konqueror display windows still come up
> > automatically.
> > 
> > John
> > -
> > Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be
> > true.
> > - Niels Bohr, to a young physicist
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