Re: format hard drive (fat)

On 2008-01-11, jeff <jeffrey.aylesworth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a 250gb USB hard drive I would like to format with fat, how can
I do this?

Don't. Format it as NTFS and be done with it. FAT has numerous
limitations, and one among them is file system size.

I would do this on windows, but it will only let me do up to 32gb with
fat, and I don't want to use ext2/3 ect. but I would like to use it on
windows, linux, and sometimes mac.

Don't know for mac, but windows and linux can easily interoperate
through ntfs-3g on Linux side.

OTOH, you could format it ext3 and use drivers for ext3 on windows; mac
knows how to use ext3.
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