formatting an external hardrive

[the.phule]

On 1/10/09, the. phule <the.phule at gmail.com> wrote:

>> In order to create a valid FAT32 partition that a foreign system can see,
>> you will have to edit the MBR partition table with fdisk, and format as
>> FAT32 with newfs_msdos(8).  It would probably be easier, if you are
>> unfamiliar with these tasks, to plug the USB drive into a Windows machine
>> and "reformat" it there as FAT32, which will take care of both the MBR
>> partition and the filesystem itself.
>
> Thanks i'll have a look at fdisk as well then cheers for the heads up.

Well I found the answer and some other random good info on the misc
mailing list

https://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-misc/2007/7/1/151921/thread

I wont repeat it all here but it solve the problem and does a brillant
introduction into the how, why and where for of fdisk.