From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 27 06:45:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2196116A4CE for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:45:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from security@jim-liesl.org) Received: from qsmtp3.mc.surewest.net (qsmtp.mc.surewest.net [66.60.130.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E93243D5C for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:44:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from security@jim-liesl.org) Received: (qmail 16515 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2006 22:45:57 -0800 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 16496, pid: 16509, t: 4.4309s scanners: regex: 1.1.0 attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.84/m:41/d:2236 spam: 3.0.3 Received: from unknown (HELO daemon.jim-liesl.org) (66.60.173.44) by qsmtp3 with SMTP; 26 Nov 2006 22:45:53 -0800 Received: from daemon.jim-liesl.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by daemon.jim-liesl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DCF161C5; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:49:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.105] (emperor.jim-liesl.org [192.168.1.105]) by daemon.jim-liesl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69ECA61C2; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:49:49 -0800 (PST) From: secmgr To: Clayton Milos In-Reply-To: <002201c711ea$aa032220$9603a8c0@claylaptop> References: <456A5A22.9070408@criticalmagic.com> <002201c711ea$aa032220$9603a8c0@claylaptop> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1164609934.3488.47.camel@emperor> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 26 Nov 2006 22:45:34 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on qsmtp3.surewest.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Large msdosfs disk will not mount on RELENG_6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:45:58 -0000 On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 22:09, Clayton Milos wrote: > > As far as I am aware windows 2000 and xp will only allow you to format up to > a 32G dive with FAT32. Any bigger and it will force you to use NTFS. The > other strange thing is tht you are trying to mount /dev/da0 and not > /dev/de0s1. The 32 gb restriction was artificial. You can look it up in the M$ "knowledge" base. Watch out for the hand waving. FreeBSD and Linux (and probably other cluefull OS's)can handle a 500gb FAT32 drive (assuming intelligent format values) w/o problem. The real issue with large FAT32 volumes is wasted space. You have to crank up the cluster size so small files eat way more on disk space than they should. Large directories don't perform all that well either. My problem with using them for container type backups is that my user partition is way bigger than 2gb, so a level 0 dump wouldn't fit. jim