From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 21 23:01:32 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 1D62B16A400 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 23:01:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB73E13C484 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 23:01:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from hymn09.u.washington.edu (hymn09.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.183]) by mxout1.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l4LN1V43027197 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:01:31 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hymn09.u.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l4LN1Uit026377 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:01:30 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.55.52.2] by hymn09.u.washington.edu via HTTP; Mon, 21 May 2007 16:01:30 PDT Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 16:01:30 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4d9d444a0705211116j5fd6ca35o576c3cfa0df23bc3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.5.21.154635 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='NO_REAL_NAME 0, __CT 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' 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 23:01:32 -0000 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 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