Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:45:21 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: William Rose <wrose@zip-it.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting large FAT32 partition truncates filesystem? Message-ID: <20021101114521.GA23107@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <1036153320.341.11.camel@miniluv.zip-it.org> References: <1036153320.341.11.camel@miniluv.zip-it.org>
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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
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