Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 11:38:01 +0000 (UTC) From: Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk too big to mount Message-ID: <20070521113541.T38110@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> In-Reply-To: <4d9d444a0705201804yccf5975l206a75e889dd1a41@mail.gmail.com> References: <4d9d444a0705201804yccf5975l206a75e889dd1a41@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 20 May 2007, Yanko Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > I have a 400GB seagate IDE hdd with backed up data that I need to load onto > a machine running freebsd 6.2 > > The drive is formated for fat32 and when I run the command: > > mount -t msdos /dev/ad2s2 /mnt/audio/ > > I get the following error: > > "mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry" > > Is there a solution to this? The mailing list archives are your friend. I checked the archives and found that you have to recompile your kernel with: option MSDOSFS_LARGE If you do not know how to do that, I would suggest reading up on how to build a new kernel: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html
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