format or fdisk ntfs drive in fedora?

[earwig]

I have an external usb drive that has been formatted with NTFS. I want to format this drive to make it fat32 with my fedoracore/linux install... is this possible? can someone help? thank you!

[jim]

yum install qtparted

see if qtparted will recognize the drive

[earwig]

it recognized the drive, and i can create the partition table but thats it... never lets me mount it etc.

[fire-fly]

Originally Posted by earwig

it recognized the drive, and i can create the partition table but thats it... never lets me mount it etc.

you made the vfat file system for the partition ?
mkfs -t vfat /dev/....... ?

[jim]

did your delete the ntfs partition then create the fat32 partition ?

[earwig]

Sorry, I should mention I am pretty new to Linux. I read the help files for atparted but didn't quite see that information; I'll have to try it later when I get home, thanks again guys.

[fire-fly]

Originally Posted by earwig

Sorry, I should mention I am pretty new to Linux. I read the help files for atparted but didn't quite see that information; I'll have to try it later when I get home, thanks again guys.

Ok, let try to do it gether, bear with me
You are using an external usb hard disk.
Assuming Hal is running.
1. Execute 'ls /dev/sd*'
2. Result should /dev/sda, /dev/sda1...
Note it may be /dev/sdb... to /dev/sdz..., depending on the situation.
3. Let assume you have /dev/sda, execute 'fdisk -l /dev/sda'
It will list your partitioning.

Cheers