From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 20 08:53:14 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 8927916A420 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:53:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chandanh@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1322243D49 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:53:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chandanh@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i11so905942nzi for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:53:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=sL40K31iC+733S+Pix/Gtkh6F5Bt+C60DgOVMXjwnOpnes2hzNXzheUpHa4M/uiyzwYKHO8bkU1OXUboUG7TJErqwe6dA6QhzK+T4PV3DxH+Tv2LukvkGzubgdrGisU6GPl5zo4aVRXy8noLEo9On9F7MkkY0OWMR1Z+xaPsZsQ= Received: by 10.36.160.11 with SMTP id i11mr5177824nze; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:53:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.100? ( [59.144.35.12]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 6sm7858474nzn.2006.02.20.00.53.11; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:53:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43F984D8.5010803@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:29:04 +0530 From: Chandan Haldar Organization: TISRA User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20051210) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <43EC456C.10405@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43EC456C.10405@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Multiple MSDOSFS partitions on iomega 250GB external disk 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: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:53:14 -0000 Answering myself. Iomega support confirmed that partitioning the 250GB external HDD was possible. I partitioned and formatted the disk into two approx 125GB FAT32 partitions using Win2K disk manager. Both the partitions show up, mount, and work fine under FreeBSD (and also under Win2K). Chandan Chandan Haldar wrote: >I have browsed the threads on using >128GB disks with MSDOSFS >(msdosfsmount()disk too big. Sorry" etc...). It seems to me from the >mails in the archive that there are basically two ways to cope with this >problem: > > >1. Rebuild kernel with MSDOSFS_LARGE enabled and pay the price in terms >of extra 32 bytes per file memory usage. > > >2. Partition the disk into multiple <128GB partitions. > > >I'm using a iomega 250GB firewire/usb external disk that I need to >access from Windoz as well as from FreeBSD. I'm inclined to go the >second way and chop it up into multiple pieces. At the iomega website, >they are washing their hands off the problem with something like this: >iomega does not recommend partitioning the disk into multiple >partitions... etc. > > >Can anyone on this list confirm actually making two or more FAT32 >partitions on a iomega 250 GB desktop external firewire/usb harddrive >and successfully using all partitions on both Windows and FreeBSD? Any >issues and experiences to share? >