how to format my external drive?

[Edith Frost]

Thanks Clint, I thought of using Fat32 since I don't care about security
on this drive. But I don't have access to any Windows machine to do the
formatting... it's not among the choices in OSX Disk Utility; should I
do it in Linux?  I'm ashamed to say I've never formatted anything in
Linux so I wouldn't know where to begin.

Edith

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 14:31, Clinton MacDonald wrote:

> Ms. Frost:
> 
> On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 01:56  PM, Edith Frost wrote:
> > Hi!  I'm dual-booting YDL and OSX on my iBook. I have a new Maxtor 
> > external firewire hard drive that I want to use to store MP3s.
> > [...]
> > How can I format this thing so it's mountable and writeable on both 
> > sides, and also allow for the long filenames?
> 
> As evil as it might seem, have you tried formatting the drive in 
> MS-DOS/FAT format? I think that might fit all your criteria.