Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:15:09 -0400 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Bobby Knight <tyskdisciplin@yahoo.se> Subject: Re: How do I access external USB fat32 160 GB drive? Message-ID: <200608181415.10159.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <20060818174053.67694.qmail@web27609.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20060818174053.67694.qmail@web27609.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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On Friday 18 August 2006 13:40, Bobby Knight wrote: > When I try to mount the drive with mount_msdos it tells me the filsystem > is to big. The drive consists av a single fat32 partition. > > Windows can access it so it must be possible in FreeBSD too. I read about > recompiling the kernel with option MSDOSFS_LARGE. But that option seems to > be gone i GENERIC now. Hence the need to compile your own kernel. Refer to /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES for details on _why_ you may or may not want to use this. Refer to the handbook for information on how to compile your own kernel (it's easy). JN
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