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Date:	Tue, 20 Apr 2004 20:27:35 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Installing FAT32

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Harry Motin wrote:

> OK! OK! But HOW do I create a FAT32 partition? I only have ECS and I don't want to add
> Windows to my system.

> Is there an OS/2-ECS utility program that I can use to create a
> FAT32 partition

Yep, that's a problem. I don't think DFSEE offers ways to format partitions for other
OSes . . . but I could be wrong.

> (and I assume that really means format it as FAT32)?

Yes.

Sandy replied:

> I've always used Partition Magic.

Yes, so have I, but we are advised not to use that (or any other FDISK-type tool), once
LVM has been used on the drive. (More than a year ago, I think the VOICE newsletter had
an article that concerned ways to *carefully* bend that rule.)

Jordan

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