changing filesystem from ext4 to FAT32

[wildrabbitt]

NEED TO DO THIS

I have a gparted disc. Can I make a fat32 filesystem with it (from an ext4) ?

[Mark Rose]

If you don't care about the data, reformat it.

If you do care about the data, how full is the filesystem? If less than half full, you can shrink ext4, resize the partition, make a new partition and format that as vfat, move your files, delete the ext4 partition, and finally resize the vfat partition.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by Mark Rose

If you don't care about the data, reformat it.

If you do care about the data, how full is the filesystem? If less than half full, you can shrink ext4, resize the partition, make a new partition and format that as vfat, move your files, delete the ext4 partition, and finally resize the vfat partition.

If you can attach another "disk" (may be a USB stick for example) which is large enough you could copy all the files to that, re-format the original and copy the files back again.

Dropbox or the like should also work.

[Mark Rose]

Originally Posted by xilman

If you can attach another "disk" (may be a USB stick for example) which is large enough you could copy all the files to that, re-format the original and copy the files back again.

Dropbox or the like should also work.

Certainly easier.

[WMHalsdorf]

I convert my ext4 drives to ntfs since fat32 max file size is 4 gig.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by WMHalsdorf

I convert my ext4 drives to ntfs since fat32 max file size is 4 gig.

LOL... Just to share, many of the elders around here were working with machines with only a few kilobytes of RAM way back in the late 1900s.

Now-a-days an icon on a desktop is larger than the RAM we had to work with.

[storm5510]

Originally Posted by chalsall

LOL... Just to share, many of the elders around here were working with machines with only a few kilobytes of RAM way back in the late 1900s.

Now-a-days an icon on a desktop is larger than the RAM we had to work with.

My first had 128K back in 1987. Most I used back at the college had 640K at that time. None had HD's. Back then, so little seemed like so much.

[S485122]

Originally Posted by WMHalsdorf

I convert my ext4 drives to ntfs since fat32 max file size is 4 gig.

EXT4 ? Are you sure ?

EXT4 supports file system volumes with sizes up to 1 ExbiByte (EiB 2^60) and files with sizes up to 16 TebiBytes (TiB 2^40). However, Red Hat recommends using XFS instead of ext4 for volumes larger than 100 TB

Also the OP speaks about a gparted disk ? Gparted is just a program to access and modify the partition table : not the characteristic of a partition table or a file system format.

Jacob

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by S485122

Also the OP speaks about a gparted disk ? Gparted is just a program to access and modify the partition table : not the characteristic of a partition table or a file system format.

Perhaps the OP wants to access the file system from a Winblows instance.

[chalsall]

Originally Posted by storm5510

My first had 128K back in 1987. Most I used back at the college had 640K at that time. None had HD's. Back then, so little seemed like so much.

My first had 2K. And off-line storage was cassette tapes at 110 baud.

I once spent CDN $1,600 for 8 MB of RAM. And CDN $1,500 for a 20 MB harddrive.

The times they are a'changing.

[thyw]

Perhaps the OP wants to access the file system from a Winblows instance.

There are free programs for this. Also, exfat is recognized by both OS (winxp needs a update for it), and have a bigger size limit.