Want to turn a UFS back into FAT32

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Wes Groleau - 21 Feb 2004 23:19 GMT

I had FreeBSD 4.9 and Win 98SE on one disk.
Now I have FreeBSD on a separate drive and
I have removed all the FreeBSD files from
the "main" drive. I'd like to make that space
a data partition 'D:' for the Win 98 SE on C:

I'd like to turn that partition back into
FAT-32 _without_ disturbing the MBR or the working
Windows C: partition. But FreeBSD won't allow
changing the UFS to FAT32 and Windows can't even
tell there's another partition there.

??

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Jeff Richards - 22 Feb 2004 01:50 GMT

If the partition is the last one on the drive, then you can delete it and
re-create it as FAT32 using FDISK. Otherwise, you need a third-party
utility such as Partition Magic.

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> I had FreeBSD 4.9 and Win 98SE on one disk.
> Now I have FreeBSD on a separate drive and
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> ??

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Wes Groleau - 22 Feb 2004 05:01 GMT

> If the partition is the last one on the drive, then you can delete it and
> re-create it as FAT32 using FDISK. Otherwise, you need a third-party
> utility such as Partition Magic.

Turns out that you can change the type and size
with fdisk -Biu even if it's not the last. Someone
in another group pointed me to that. Unfortunately,
I gave it the wrong size, for a new set of errors. :-)

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philo - 22 Feb 2004 02:16 GMT

> I had FreeBSD 4.9 and Win 98SE on one disk.
> Now I have FreeBSD on a separate drive and
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> ??

from FreeBSD
you *delete* your UFS and FreeBSD swap partitions.
as you see, there is no built-in conversion utility

then from windows you can just run fdisk and recreate

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Wes Groleau - 22 Feb 2004 05:02 GMT

> from FreeBSD
> you *delete* your UFS and FreeBSD swap partitions.
> as you see, there is no built-in conversion utility
>
> then from windows you can just run fdisk and recreate

Turns out fdisk can convert but I messed it up,
so perhaps I'll try this. Thanks.

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philo - 23 Feb 2004 08:09 GMT

> > from FreeBSD
> > you *delete* your UFS and FreeBSD swap partitions.
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> Turns out fdisk can convert but I messed it up,
> so perhaps I'll try this. Thanks.

ah yes
i forgot that there are more powerful version of fdisk than those that come
with windows...
but deleting and recreating should do the job

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