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[AMDinside]

I was tasked with formatting 100 external USB hdd's from NTFS to FAT32 so ghost can image them.  I ended up having to use Linux to do this task, as Windows XP only  formats disks up to 32GB in FAT32.  I have the commands to do what I need but I was hoping that someone here could help me come up with a script that will do it all with the click of an icon.  Make this tedious task a lot quicker. 

Please help.

[GenTsoChiken]

well, if you were using windows, id say make a batch file. i use them all the time to do updates and stuff on the systems here at my school, very helpful. i'm not really sure if *nix has something similar, im sure there is but i dont know it off the top of my head.

[AMDinside]

Yeah, I am using linux.  It works much the same on linux, I just dont know the commands too well.

[coldflame]

Does linux take perl? If it does...I could do a script for you.

Edit:
That was a dumb question, of course Linux takes PERL. I need the specific commands. And I'll put it together.

[AMDinside]

I was hoping for something simple, like a shell script.

[Popsikle]

whats the command you are running to format them, and what do you wish the script to actually do?

[AMDinside]

It doesn't matter any more.  I formated them all one by one.

[$hellCoder]

by the way, I use the old Norton Ghost v7.5 by booting to DOS via a win98 boot disk.  This version of Ghost will image any NTFS drives of any size (by my own personal experience)...

This is the method I developed and used to backup customer's data while I worked as a tech at CompUSA for over 3 years and in that time did about 4 backup images a day.

[AMDinside]

It works for NTFS on internal drives.  When you try to do it with a USB drive it fails.

[Sly]

Amd are you using ubuntu gusty/hardy?