HOW-TO: FAT32/NTFS/ext3 For Windows/Linux Cross-compatible

Hello.
How can I Convert FAT32 to NTFS without format? In windows I can use below command and it work very nice but how about Linux?

convert Drive: /FS:NTFS

Thanks.

(BTW I'm running Xubuntu 15.04)

I'm starting to understand Luckybackup. And gold_finger said:

Quote:
Assuming your Xubuntu filesystem is Ext4, example of doing initial backup would be something like this:

* Spare USB with large partition formatted as Ext4 and labeled "BACKUPS"
I know the EXT4 is more friendly to Linux but all my flash drives are FAT32 (and I'll be backing up to those flash drives) and I'd really like to keep them that way (because sometimes I do plug them into Windows machines--and I know FAT32 works with both Windows and Linux). So is there any reason I would have to use Ext4 and not FAT32 in backing up stuff in LuckyBackup?

I confess to great ignorance about the difference between the EXT and FAT formats. Like if I do format a flash drive to EXT 4 and want to plug the flash drive into a Windows computer it just doesn't work? Like, what's the advantage to using EXT4 then if FAT 32 works with Linux and Windows? What are the disadvantages to using EXT4?

Thanks.

Hello,

i mounted a fat32 partition located in my external 500GB USB Hard Disk to /mnt/fat32 using su root at shell.

then i see it is read only for my user account. the gnome file manager shows all the files and folders, but i cannot past or create anything.

so i #chmod 777 /mnt/fat32

but problem still remain same.

So I have 1 gb micro SD card made by Nokia and it just refuses to be formated.

I've tried many ways but it just won't completely format. This is what I've tried
ayy did "diskpart" utility in Windows to remove protection by command "volume disk clear readonly" allowed to format once but doesn't compelely blank it Tried the builtin "Disk Utility" to format but gave me an error, "Error synchronizing after initial wipe: Timed out waiting for object (udisks-error-quark, 0)" Installed Gparted. Did simple rightlclick format to NTFS but it gave me an error "LVM not supported loop disk label" Tried giving multipel commands, delete disk [makes it unallocated drive] create new ntfs Primary partion, gives me an error "too many primary partition"
I've attached the Gparted error log. [can't attach html, pasted the code]

What can I do now? It just keeps getting in its Nokia files back and wont leave FAT format, i want to make it NTFS so i can use it in the camera. It's not corrupted because I can paste files on to it on the desktop. Also its not locked by a physical button

Code:

GParted 0.19.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize

Libparted 3.2
Delete /dev/mmcblk0 (fat16, 968.75 MiB) from /dev/mmcblk0  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
     	
calibrate /dev/mmcblk0  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
     	
path: /dev/mmcblk0
start: 0
end: 1983999
size: 1984000 (968.75 MiB)
delete partition  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )

========================================
Create Primary Partition #1 (ntfs, 967.00 MiB) on /dev/mmcblk0  00:00:00    ( ERROR )
     	
create empty partition  00:00:00    ( ERROR )
libparted messages    ( INFO )
     	
Too many primary partitions.

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Code:

GParted 0.19.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize

Libparted 3.2
Format /dev/mmcblk0 as ntfs  00:00:00    ( ERROR )
     	
calibrate /dev/mmcblk0  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
     	
path: /dev/mmcblk0
start: 0
end: 1983999
size: 1984000 (968.75 MiB)
clear old file system signatures in /dev/mmcblk0  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
     	
write 68.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 67108864  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
write 4.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 1015803904  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
flush operating system cache of /dev/mmcblk0  00:00:00    ( SUCCESS )
set partition type on /dev/mmcblk0  00:00:00    ( ERROR )
libparted messages    ( INFO )
     	
The flag 'lvm' is not available for loop disk labels.

========================================

Hello Everyone
I have installed Ubuntu Server on a 500 GB drive formatted as EXT4.

Of of my Media, movies, music and pictures are from Windows PC's formatted in NTFS.
As all of the computers connecting to the server will be windows based will NTFS be fine or will I have to reformat them to work. The two media drives are 2 x 2GB Sata drives.
Could you tell me if this setup would work or will I have to reformat and and transfer the files to a new filesystem.
Also as a file server whats the best linux file system to use so it will work with windows PC's in a lan flawlessly.
Thanks for you expertise.
Regards

I have a dual boot laptop with debian stable & Windows 7.

The HD partitions a
sda1: NTFS for W7
sda2: FAT32 (currently unused)
sda3: linux /boot
sda4: linux ext4, which is LVM with encryption

I've re-installed W7 and now need to recover the MBR & grub menu.

I've booted with the netinst usb in rescue mode, but it fails to mount the root partition /sda4:
"An error occured while mounting the device you entered for your root file system (/dev/sda4) on /target"

and /var/syslog shows:
Code:

rescue-mode: selected root device '/dev/sda4'
umount: cant umount /target: Invalid argument
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=sda4, iso_blknum=16, block=32
EXT2-fs (sda4): error: unable to readsuperblock
EXT3-fs (sda4): error: unable to readsuperblock
rescue: mount: mounting /dev/sda4 on /target failed: Invalid argument

So it seems like something is wrong with the mount command?

Would appreciate suggestions how to solve this.

Thanks

I want to get all permissions for all the users when ntfs usb drives is detected and linux mount it automatically. Linux grants permission only for root and it can´t be changed.

i have a few score of files (>50) in fasta format. these work fine in linux os
but i have to send these to a collegue who uses windows. and these files don't open properly in notepad or wordpad. executing save as to windows format does the trick

but i don't want to manually convert all of them

is ther a way i can accomplish conversion of multiple files and saving them in a format of my choosing using say terminal

I recently bought a WD external hard drive for storing file of several types. Using gparted I made two partitions, one ntfs for windows files and an ext 4 for linux files. Strangely, I have complete access to ntfs partition from linux side of duel boot system, but do not have permission to access ext4 partition. My root password does not work when I use su to gain root access. It works fine on built in hard drive.

Hello there,

I tried to install kali alongside windows and did it wrong probably. Now whenever I boot, grub loader sees only Kali and Free-DOS and doesn't see Windows.

I can still see the Windows partition in Kali and access the files however.
Searched online for a solution and saw that boot-repair could help me, however because some new update issue I cannot install it under Kali directly( see below link, it doesnt work for me).
askubuntu.com/questions/449818/cant-find-boot-repair-package-for-the-newest-version-of-ubuntu]

Long story short, I downloaded the iso version of boot-repair and tried to burn it onto a live-usb, but it doesn't load. All I get is a black screen with a terminal line running where I can't do anything.
I burned the iso using the terminal and the command below.
sudo dd bs=4M if=file.iso of=/dev/sdc
I burned the iso using unetbootin a couple of times and the same issue.


Any ideas? am I doing something wrong? How can I burn the iso disk to a live USB to run boot-repair? Or any other alternatives?

PS: first time linux user, I have no idea what am I doing so please be patient with me.





This is my output for running sfdisk -l.

Code:

sfdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 60801 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Warning: extended partition does not start at a cylinder boundary.
DOS and Linux will interpret the contents differently.
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *      0+    118     119-    955836    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2      59654   60801-   1148-   9215829    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3        119+  59653   59535- 478214340    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sda5        119+  51030   50912- 408950091+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6      58934+  59653     720-   5783368+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7      51031+  58933    7903-  63479131   83  Linux
		start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (855,54,32)
		end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (565,254,63)

Disk /dev/sdb: 1020 cylinders, 240 heads, 62 sectors/track
Warning: The partition table looks like it was made
  for C/H/S=*/104/54 (instead of 1020/240/62).
For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
Units = cylinders of 2875392 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *      0+   2704-   2705-   7592960    b  W95 FAT32
		start: (c,h,s) expected (0,37,51) found (0,32,33)
		end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,103,54) found (945,103,54)
/dev/sdb2          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sdb3          0       -       0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sdb4          0       -       0          0    0  Empty