Jean-Sylvestre Gakwaya wrote:
The file system of WINDOWS NT/2000 is NTFS which does not appear in the type of file system option of fdisk of redhat 6.0 (or debian) So is it possible to set a partition drive with FAT 32 type and make a FAT 32 drive (set by fdisk of linux) useable by windows nt/2000 ?
As a general rule, you want to create partitions with the native OS of that partition type. In other words, don't try to create a partition for Windows using Linux's fdisk. Instead, while in Linux's fdisk, create your Linux partitions, and leave an empty space for Windows, and let the Windows installation/fdisk create it's NTFS/FAT[16/32] partition.
Linux has the capability to read NTFS partitions, but not to write to them (unless you're using some bleeding edge technology that I'm unfamiliar with). Linux can read/write FAT32 partitions. This might have some bearing on the direction you wish to go.
Also, as a general rule, NT runs faster on NTFS than on FAT32, but that's dependent on such things as cluster size, etc, so your mileage may vary.
Kent