Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:32:15 -0800 From: Norbert Papke <npapke@acm.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written Message-ID: <200903050832.15869.npapke@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <20090305141217.GA11424@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20090305081407.GA2242@rebelion.Sisis.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903051048220.74507@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090305141217.GA11424@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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On March 5, 2009, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El d=EDa Thursday, March 05, 2009 a las 10:48:52AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar= > to=20 end this threat, I did: > > # dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/da0 bs=3D64k count=3D1 > # newfs_msdos /dev/da0 > # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt > # time cat file file file > /mnt/big > cat: stdout: File too large > 0.276u 19.421s 14:36.63 2.2% 11+1180k 33887+65536io 0pf+0w > > # df -kh /mnt > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0 7.5G 4.0G 3.5G 53% /mnt > > i.e. it writes the maximal file size of 4G in FAT32 and 3.5G are left as > free; Seems to work as it should. The maximum allowed file size on a FAT32 file= =20 system is 4GB (-1 byte). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT32 Cheers, =2D- Norbert Papke.
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