Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:39:10 +0200 From: "Andreas Rudisch" <cyb.@gmx.net> To: "Duane Hill" <d.hill@yournetplus.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk too big to mount Message-ID: <op.tsooflpvblu3bc@core2duo> 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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On Mon, 21 May 2007 17:12:52 +0200, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote: > 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.. Not to mention the fact that you cannot create files larger than 4GB on it. Andreas
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