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Date:      Mon, 21 May 2007 11:38:01 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disk too big to mount
Message-ID:  <20070521113541.T38110@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com>
In-Reply-To: <4d9d444a0705201804yccf5975l206a75e889dd1a41@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4d9d444a0705201804yccf5975l206a75e889dd1a41@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, 20 May 2007, Yanko Sanchez wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a 400GB seagate IDE hdd with backed up data that I need to load onto
> a machine running freebsd 6.2
>
> The drive is formated for fat32 and when I run the command:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/ad2s2 /mnt/audio/
>
> I get the following error:
>
> "mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry"
>
> Is there a solution to this?

The mailing list archives are your friend. I checked the archives and 
found that you have to recompile your kernel with:

option MSDOSFS_LARGE

If you do not know how to do that, I would suggest reading up on how to 
build a new kernel:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html



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