From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 19 09:43:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79DB116A4DD for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:43:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tyskdisciplin@yahoo.se) Received: from web27608.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (web27608.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.177.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B61BF43D53 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:43:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tyskdisciplin@yahoo.se) Received: (qmail 80345 invoked by uid 60001); 19 Aug 2006 09:43:28 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.se; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=i5rxdp022uaDEnXaDkLlydoEJ0AQSivHSGGv0bKr+3++MJXDKDNWUNJGdnJ92AY8sJRr8xJx+kFeVOIlYAreBj68MgxqrDoZRtYj7/bmANqtXvAx8SD2uuAPe004kI+OASaGdWHMxZa2NnYY0DPKDGc7uFcnrhxxWABAZLZrqMc= ; Message-ID: <20060819094328.80343.qmail@web27608.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Received: from [213.141.79.130] by web27608.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:43:28 CEST Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 11:43:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Bobby Knight To: John Nielsen In-Reply-To: <200608181415.10159.lists@jnielsen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SV: Re: How do I access external USB fat32 160 GB drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:43:30 -0000 John Nielsen skrev: 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 I don't know how to interpret that warning. I won't have more than 1 million files on the fat32 fs. But I will wan't to write to it. Is it not possible to write to it? Thank you for your help