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   Lars Erdmann to All   
   Re: formatting to FAT32   
   21 Mar 11 20:07:37   
   
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   From: Lars Erdmann    
      
   Pierre Jelenc wrote:   
   > I have an external (USB) disk with 3 partitions formatted with JFS and I   
   > would like to reformat one of those to FAT32 to be readable by both eCS   
   > and Linux.   
   >   
   > The FAT32 IFS is always loaded, to read memory cards and sticks, so I   
   > thought all I needed to do was to use FORMAT, but that does not work:   
   >   
   > 	[c:\desktop]FORMAT O: /FS:FAT32   
   > 	The type of file system for the disk is JFS.   
   > 	   
   > 	This function is not supported   
   >   
   > Do I need something more?   
   >   
   > Thanks.   
   >   
   > Pierre   
   Unfortunately, formatting support for FAT32 was never built into UFAT32.DLL   
   (that's where it would be implemented). I started implementing formatting   
   support in UFAT32.DLL but never got it finished.   
      
   You need to format under Windoze or use DFSee (if you have it).   
      
   Lars   
      
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