From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 21 15:12:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C88416A4FC for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 15:12:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED6C713C46A for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 15:12:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l4LFCrxF020792 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 21 May 2007 08:12:53 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.45] (c-67-166-149-71.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.166.149.71]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l4LFCqOx010209 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 21 May 2007 08:12:53 -0700 Message-ID: <4651B6F4.5030007@u.washington.edu> Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 08:12:52 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Duane Hill References: <4d9d444a0705201804yccf5975l206a75e889dd1a41@mail.gmail.com> <20070521113942.A38110@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> In-Reply-To: <20070521113942.A38110@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.5.21.75535 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk too big to mount 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, 21 May 2007 15:12:54 -0000 Duane Hill wrote: > Disreguard my previous response. I didn't see your next response to Ray. > Sorry. > > 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? >> Thanks. Why on earth would you want to create a 400GB MSDOSFS formatted disk? MSDOSFS was quick but offered no protection against power outages or incomplete writes, and was horrible in terms of disk fragmentation.. If you really want MSDOSFS for whatever reason, just break up the disk into smaller chunks partition-wise (IIRC 100GB chunks are fine). -Garrett