I am trying to help a friend back up some files to an external USB drive from a machine running Ubuntu. The drive is a 1.36 TB big and is using NTFS. From what I can tell I need to reformat it to FAT32. But FAT32 does not seem to be able handle a drive that big.
I tried mkfs -t vfat but it still shows as NTFS on the Ubuntu machine. Which is funny because when I plug it into my Windows 7 machine to format it there it shows up as FAT32. I also tried SwissKnife but it only offered me FAT16 - I want FAT32.
What can I do?
What happens when you manually re-mount the drive as vfat?
umount /MOUNTPOINT
mount -t vfat -v /dev/sdXX /MOUNTPOINT