From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 1 11:47:47 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 D2D0137B401 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:47:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from truman.datasphereweb.com (12-231-81-122.client.attbi.com [12.231.81.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 833BA43E3B for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:47:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryallsd@datasphereweb.com) Received: (qmail 36373 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2002 19:52:32 -0000 Received: from 12-229-238-38.client.attbi.com (HELO bartxp) (12.229.238.38) by 12-231-81-122.client.attbi.com with SMTP; 1 Nov 2002 19:52:32 -0000 From: "Derrick Ryalls" To: Subject: RE: Mounting large FAT32 partition truncates filesystem? Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:47:28 -0800 Message-ID: <008201c281df$85b7caa0$0200a8c0@bartxp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 In-Reply-To: <20021101114521.GA23107@submonkey.net> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal 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 Win2k has a limitation when it comes to FAT32, it will not format/deal with partitions that are larger than a set number which I believe is roughly 30gig. This is not a limitation of FAT32, just a limit with Win2k and FAT32. It should also be noted that with large partitions or lots of files, FAT32 performance rapidly degrades. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG=20 > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Ceri Davies > Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 3:45 AM > To: William Rose > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Mounting large FAT32 partition truncates filesystem? >=20 >=20 > On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:22:00PM +1100, William Rose wrote: > > Hi, > >=20 > > I recently tried to mount a FAT32 file system (formatted to 80GB,=20 > > under Windows 2K) under FreeBSD. The only problem is that the=20 > > filesystem has been truncated to 20GB! Now, booting into Windows=20 > > shows it has also been truncated. Help! >=20 > Sounds strange. > I tried to format a 50GB partition to FAT32 under Windows 2K=20 > just last week, and Windows told me that the partition was=20 > too big and refused to do anything with it. >=20 > > Does FreeBSD trash volumes that it assumes are 'too big'? >=20 > I seriously doubt it. >=20 > Ceri > --=20 > you can't see when light's so strong > you can't see when light is gone >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message