New Fat 32 Partition from NTFS

[mac_zOOTSTER]

Hey guys,

Been through most of the threads as well as the Wiki guide but does anyone know if you can use diskutil to resize (reduce) your windows XP NTFS partition (disk 3) and create a new fat 32 partition in the middle to use as a shared drive without having to rebuild XP?

If using diskutil, can you ensure that the XP partition remains the last partition and then new fat 32 partition (created from the reduced NTFS Partition) becomes disk 3

My existing setup is as follows:

/dev/disk0
#: type name size identifier
0: GUID_partition_scheme *74.5 GB disk0
1: EFI 200.0 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 29.0 GB disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data Untitled 45.2 GB disk0s3

I would like discOs3 to become 40GB and create a 5GB fat 32 partition.

Thanks

[tucdemonic]

you cannot do this, the ntfs partition will get wiped out, the best way to have this work in the future is to have the osx drive larger than the winXP then resize the osx a second time.