Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 16:01:30 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disk too big to mount Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0705211601300.17695@hymn09.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <4d9d444a0705211116j5fd6ca35o576c3cfa0df23bc3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 21 May 2007, Yanko Sanchez wrote: > 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 <youshi10@u.washington.edu> 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 If by PowerPC you mean MacOSX, it supports UFS formatting as well as MSDOSFS formatting. Some food for thought.. -Garrett
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