Partitioning Macbook

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I've got the following setup on my macbook:

14GB Assigned to windows - NTFS
41GB Assigned to Mac - Standard Format

Now I'm wanting to take space from the second drive arounds 10GB and make it a Fat32 so both OS's can read/write onto it.

How would I go about doing this? Which OS should I do it from?

I can't see OSX in Windows, but I can do it the other way around.

Cheers.
 
So let's get this striaght. You're trying to resize an HFS+ partition to glean 10 GiB space off of it. Then you want to format that 10 GiB partition fat32?
 
You can do it all from the Disk Utility in OS X.

Open up the DU then click on the root of the drive you want to partition. Click the tab over on the right for "partition."

Size it all out accordingly and tell it you want the new space to be formatted fat32. It should be about 30 seconds of work for and a minute or two waiting for the computer to finish working

God, I love the Disk Utility.
 
Ah, I'm betting it doesn't like partitioning the root drive that hosting the OS. Hmm, off the top of my head I can't think of a way to resolve this because unmounting "Macintosh HD" is not allowed because it's in use.

Perhaps Boot Camp will let you make another partition on it that you could then format with the fat32 file system.
 
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