Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 10:21:39 -0500 From: Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> Subject: Re: disk too big to mount Message-ID: <4651B903.3030306@cs.okstate.edu> In-Reply-To: <4651B6F4.5030007@u.washington.edu> References: <4d9d444a0705201804yccf5975l206a75e889dd1a41@mail.gmail.com> <20070521113942.A38110@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> <4651B6F4.5030007@u.washington.edu>
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Written by Garrett Cooper on 05/21/07 10:12>> > Duane Hill wrote: >> Disreguard my previous response. I didn't see your next response to >> Ray. Sorry. >> >> 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? >>> Thanks. > > Why on earth would you want to create a 400GB MSDOSFS formatted disk? > MSDOSFS was quick but offered no protection against power outages or > incomplete writes, and was horrible in terms of disk fragmentation.. > > If you really want MSDOSFS for whatever reason, just break up the disk > into smaller chunks partition-wise (IIRC 100GB chunks are fine). > > -Garrett > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" You can add large msdosfs support into your kernel by adding "options MSDOSFS_LARGE" to your kernel configuration. -Reid
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