From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 1 3:45:25 2002 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 637F637B401 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 03:45:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-4-cust210.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.10.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C3A943E6E for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 03:45:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 187aEr-00061B-00; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 11:45:21 +0000 Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:45:21 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: William Rose Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting large FAT32 partition truncates filesystem? Message-ID: <20021101114521.GA23107@submonkey.net> References: <1036153320.341.11.camel@miniluv.zip-it.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1036153320.341.11.camel@miniluv.zip-it.org> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. X-message-flag-attribution: suresh, sdm. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:22:00PM +1100, William Rose wrote: > Hi, > > I recently tried to mount a FAT32 file system (formatted to 80GB, under > Windows 2K) under FreeBSD. The only problem is that the filesystem has > been truncated to 20GB! Now, booting into Windows shows it has also > been truncated. Help! Sounds strange. I tried to format a 50GB partition to FAT32 under Windows 2K just last week, and Windows told me that the partition was too big and refused to do anything with it. > Does FreeBSD trash volumes that it assumes are 'too big'? I seriously doubt it. Ceri -- you can't see when light's so strong you can't see when light is gone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message