Brand-spankin new at Linux

Hello, I wasn’t sure where to put this, but this sounded like the correct forum. I’m pretty new to Suse and Linux in general, though I do know a little Unix, but barely. In any case, my question should be pretty simple to answer. I have an NTSF formatted drive. It crashes my Mac every time I try to mount it. When I mount it on a PC, I can see it fine, but when I try to reformat it only gives me the option of formatting for NTSF and not Fat32. I mounted it fine in Suse. What I’d like to do is format this drive for Fat32 or even some flavor of *ix so that I can use it on my Mac. There is nothing on the drive that I need to keep and can erase it totally, but the problem is I don’t know how to format a drive at all in Suse. Any help, please? :slight_smile:

Thanks!

You can just go to YaST > System > Partitioner.

Make sure it isn’t mounted first though. Delete it, recreate it as whatever filesystem you want. Probably less confusing than doing it from a command line.

Hi
Use YaST -> System -> Partitioner. MAKE sure you select the CORRECT
DRIVE!!! :wink: here you can select the device, create the partition and
format.


Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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Thanks, guys.:wink: