NTFS Firewire Drive / Partition Question

[natrix]

Hi.

I recently made the switch from XP to FC3. It's coming along ok so far, but I have all of my data from my prev system on an 80g Firewire drive, NTFS formatting about 40% full. I can read the drive as root only. I know there is a fix for that that involves changing the /etc/fstab but rather I would prefer to do this:

-Create a 40g FAT32 partition on the drive
-Move data from NTFS partition to FAT32 partition.
-Re-format NTFS partition to FAT32 .

I know this is not the easiest method, but my main HDD only has 17gb free, so I can't just backup there.

Can I do this on my computer, or will I have to do it on a Windows PC? (I erradicated all traces of Microshaft from my PC when I did the FC3 install. I thought that if I had winXP to fall back on that I would never learn Linux!)

I appreciate any help! -N87R1X

[terr9898]

You can use the QParted program to resize the NTFS and create the FAT32 partition.
Also, instead of creating a FAT32, why not create a ext3 partition and copy the data direct into there.

To re-format NTFS to FAT32, you can use either QParted or mkfs.vfat (after changing the partition type using fdisk).

[imdeemvp]

You can find qtparted here: http://rpm.pbone.net/ . You need 2 dependecies A) jfsutils B) xfsprogs all packages must according to your fedora version.

[natrix]

I installed Qparted, and when I select the firewire NTFS drive, it crashes. Any suggestions? Before the program closes, it displays a dialog too quickly to tell what it says. Are you sure parted supports NTFS?

n8