Matt Rosales wrote: > Check out gparted (GUI for parted) - It can format to FAT32. > From the parted man page: > parted mkpart part-type [fs-type] start end Thanks for the help. :-) The Debian box is intended to be a backup server, so there is no GUI. I'll look into parted. > Regarding the encrypted partition; what is stopping you? I think that > is the normal configuration of LUKS - If I understood the original > post correctly you want to dualboot encrypted Win and Debian, right? > So two encrypted partitions should do the trick, or is there something > I'm missing? The backup server boots Debian only. I want to put backup images on encrypted USB SATA drives, and be able to read the images from either Linux or Windows. David --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx