format partition

[Goeman Stefan <Stefan.Goeman@siemens.com>]

Hello All,

 

I am trying to format the last partition as a fat32 filesystem so that I can use it as a share

between my WinNT OS (on /dev/sda) and linux.

Formatting via WinNT does not seem to work therefore I am trying to do this in linux.

So far, no success either.

I use following command: mkdosfs -F 32 -v /dev/hdc8

It prints something and then it stops without formatting the partition.

 

Can somebody help me?

 

I included my partition table, maybe this is important.

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Disk /dev/hdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

 

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1   *         1       608   4883728+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc2           609       669    489982+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hdc3           670      1277   4883760   83  Linux
/dev/hdc4          1278      4865  28820610    5  Extended
/dev/hdc5          1278      3101  14651248+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc6          3102      3283   1461883+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc7          3284      3344    489951   83  Linux
/dev/hdc8          3345      4865  12217401    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)

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Greetings,

Stefan Goeman