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Cc: Bobby Knight <tyskdisciplin@yahoo.se>
Subject: Re: How do I access external USB fat32 160 GB drive?
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On Friday 18 August 2006 13:40, Bobby Knight wrote:
>   When I try to mount the drive with mount_msdos it tells me the filsystem
> is to big. The drive consists av a single fat32 partition.
>
>   Windows can access it so it must be possible in FreeBSD too. I read about
> recompiling the kernel with option MSDOSFS_LARGE. But that option seems to
> be gone i GENERIC now.

Hence the need to compile your own kernel. Refer to /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES 
for details on _why_ you may or may not want to use this. Refer to the 
handbook for information on how to compile your own kernel (it's easy).

JN