format fat32

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mkdosfs -F32 /dev/hda is not formatting the partition but the whole 
drive. you'll have to do something like mkdosfs -F32 /dev/hda1.

Cyber Source wrote:

>Can anyone tell me the correct way to successfully format a fat32
>partition in Linux? I have a drive, 80GB which my dos disks won't
>recognize correctly and I am making a dual boot with windows/Linux. The
>windows part limits to 32GB or wants to format in ntfs, and we cant have
>that!
>I can make the partition easy enough in Linux and I assign the boot
>flag. I then format with the command "mkdosfs -F32 /dev/hda" and it says
>it formats OK. I then install windows and it installs but then when it
>reboots, it fails. I know I am doing something wrong in the formatting
>because this has happened before and my work around then was to hook up
>the 80GB as a slave to a windows box and then format it from within
>windows, then I installed and everything was ok. Am I doing the mkdosfs
>command correctly? 
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