Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:19:00 +0530 From: Chandan Haldar <chandanh@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Multiple MSDOSFS partitions on iomega 250GB external disk Message-ID: <43EC456C.10405@gmail.com>
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I have browsed the threads on using >128GB disks with MSDOSFS (msdosfsmount()disk too big. Sorry" etc...). It seems to me from the mails in the archive that there are basically two ways to cope with this problem: 1. Rebuild kernel with MSDOSFS_LARGE enabled and pay the price in terms of extra 32 bytes per file memory usage. 2. Partition the disk into multiple <128GB partitions. I'm using a iomega 250GB firewire/usb external disk that I need to access from Windoz as well as from FreeBSD. I'm inclined to go the second way and chop it up into multiple pieces. At the iomega website, they are washing their hands off the problem with something like this: iomega does not recommend partitioning the disk into multiple partitions... etc. Can anyone on this list confirm actually making two or more FAT32 partitions on a iomega 250 GB desktop external firewire/usb harddrive and successfully using all partitions on both Windows and FreeBSD? Any issues and experiences to share? Also, is it possible to use something like partitionmagic to resize the first partition without destroying the data (as I can do on a standard internal harddisk)? Thanks for any help. Chandan
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