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I was dumb and used FAT32 as filesystem. Now I want to download files larger than the size of 4GB, which is not possible for FAT32. I use a dual boot (Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 10) and the HDD is accessed by both systems (I have two additional SSD partitions on which the systems are, but these partitions shall remain unchanged). I thought the easiest way of solving this problem is converting the filesystem from FAT32 into NTFS using Window's programm convert. And now my questions:

1) After having used "convert" how can I mount the HDD in Ubuntu again such that it is mounted at the same position as before permanently, i.e. automatically when I start the system (I think the HDD is currently mounted at /)?

2) Do I have to remove any entries in the file fstab in order to tell my system the old HDD is not longer existent?

3) are there any other things I should consider and is this a suitable "strategy".

PS: my Linux level is very low, I would be glad if you could respect that, when answering :)

Thanks in advance

EDIT:

The content of my fstab file is as follows ("HDD" is the internal Hard Drive I am talking about):

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sdb6 during installation
UUID=*********************************** /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /HDD was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=*********  /HDD            vfat    utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=***************************** none            swap    sw              0       0
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The links of Takkat and the advise of oldfred were very helpful here is what I have done:

1) started windows (10) and useed convert filesystem from FAT32 to NTFS using convert. I think I have done this by:

convert E: /fs:ntfs

were E is the name of the shared hard drive. 2) waited some seconds until conversion has been terminated, used

vol E:

and made a note of the output

3) restarted, started ubuntu and did the following using terminal:

sudo blkid | grep '[number noted in step 2 but removed "-"]'

then made a note with the output

4) edited /etc/fstab by replacing the UUID of the partition, that has been converted, by the output of step 3, changed the filesystem from FAT32 to NTFS and choose some new options suggested by the previous responders, such that my new fstab has the following content:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system>                             <mount point>   <type>  <options>                                                    <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sdb6 during installation
UUID=************************************    /               ext4    errors=remount-ro                                             0       1
# /HDD was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=****************                        /HDD            ntfs    defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46,uid=1000,windows_names     0       1
# swap was on /dev/sdb5 during installation
UUID=************************************    none            swap    sw                                                            0       0

of course I give no guarantee neither that this works for you, nor that I remembered everything right, you do it at your own risk ;)

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