From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 21 18:16:28 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 C734116A468 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 18:16:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from y@rem7.cc) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FC2513C45B for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 18:16:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from y@rem7.cc) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so2328413nze for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:16:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.16.1 with SMTP id t1mr2803839wai.1179771385360; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:16:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.47.5 with HTTP; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:16:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4d9d444a0705211116j5fd6ca35o576c3cfa0df23bc3@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 11:16:25 -0700 From: "Yanko Sanchez" To: "Garrett Cooper" In-Reply-To: <4651B6F4.5030007@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4d9d444a0705201804yccf5975l206a75e889dd1a41@mail.gmail.com> <20070521113942.A38110@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> <4651B6F4.5030007@u.washington.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Duane Hill 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 18:16:28 -0000 because when the hdd was first formated it was inside of a PowerPC and we knew that it was going to be on a server but we didn't know of what kind so we just formated FAT32. I don't really care what the fomrmat it is, if I could switch it to UFS I'd do it, but I need a hdd as big as that one to copy the files and then be able to reformat with a new FS. On 5/21/07, Garrett Cooper wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >