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On my home workstation I dual boot fedora 6 and windows xp (only for games really). I wanted to be able to easily share a storage drive between the two OSes so I decided to format one of my secondary drives FAT32. Here are the steps I took to complete the task. I am posting them on here mostly for my own reference, if you have any questions leave a comment and I will do my best to help you out!

From a command line as root:

# “fdisk hda” (or sda for serial ata drives) to enter the menu drive fdisk utility
# “p” to list current partitions
# “n” create a new partition
# “p” for primary
# Give the volume a label (1 for hda1 or sda1)
# Set the first and last sector
# “t” to change the filesystem type
# “c” for vfat
# “w” to write the partition table and exit the fdisk utility
# “mkfs -t vfat /dev/{your_vfat_drive}
# “vi /etc/fstab”
# /dev/{your_vfat_drive} /mnt/{mount_point} defaults,umask=000 0 0
# “mount -a or mount /dev/{your_vfat_drive}”