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Date:      Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:20:42 -0600
From:      "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        nick holley <nick.holley@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FBSD 5.3-STABLE and 200GB USB2 drive
Message-ID:  <419696CA.4010902@daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <40200b1704111219314dba8c72@mail.gmail.com>
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nick holley wrote:

>On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:54:40 +0100, Darksidex <humprhey@gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>>On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:19:40 +0100, Darksidex <humprhey@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>That is my problem. I have updated my system to 5.3, and I tried to
>>>>mount my USB2.0 drive (with 200GB), and the system can't mount it. I
>>>>had heard that this FBSD version was able to mount this kind of
>>>>drives, it is true? In that case, what I have to do?
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Can you be a little more specific? What errors (if any) do you
>>>receive? Does the system detect the drive? etc.
>>>
>>>Nick
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>mountmsdosfs(): disk too big (or something like this at this moment I
>>dont remember)
>>My systems detects the unit, in /dev/da0s1
>>#: mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /internet (/internet directory exists)
>>    
>>
>
>I'm want to say that your problem is exactly what it says. I think
>that FreeBSD can only deal with a fat32 partition up to a certain size
>(128GB?). You might also try splitting it into a couple of different
>partitions or reformatting as UFS if you don't need windows
>compatability.
>
>Nick
>  
>

Also might want to keep careful track of what is going on with
development; one of the goals for 5.3-RELEASE, I thought, was
merging in some changes to msdosfs contributed by the nice
folks at Apple; but I've not checked lately to see if that was done
or whatnot ...

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.


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