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From: Tsampros Leonidas <ltsampros@upnet.gr>
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Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs(): disk too big still a problem?
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On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 02:29:34PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Alex Teslik wrote:
> 
> >I have run into the "mountmsdosfs(); disk too big" problem while trying to
> >mount a 250GB FAT32 drive. This problem is pretty well documented:
> >
> >http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd-stable/msg11027.html
> >
> >but I couldn't find any documentation regarding it being fixed when I 
> >googled
> >around.
> >I am running FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p5 i386. Does anyone know if this 
> >problem is
> >fixed in 4.11 or 5.4?
> >
Recompile the kernel with 

options           MSDOSFS_LARGE

Works for me, 5.4-STABLE.