From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 26 12:53:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 755DD16A41F for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:53:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chandanh@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7379C43D48 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:53:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chandanh@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id l8so1264440nzf for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:53:20 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hJnYZHVtNBF77SIbsBntSUvJnp+L2QQP7XQiNsiSsCssnJ3epKoWthUMclEgiBY+DgPuf08oRkCP/9XEqFh26U3Ig2Sv0FBptjlEzjfWuAIYyauAFyLKKf8q5l03Rz5eq0sRmxt2FRehbG+tdSvpOJbLE1hMjyslUT4oRbe0qIk= Received: by 10.37.12.18 with SMTP id p18mr3719097nzi; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:53:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.100? ( [59.144.36.228]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 22sm205118nzn.2006.03.26.04.53.18; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:53:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <44269051.3090507@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 18:30:01 +0530 From: Chandan Haldar Organization: TISRA User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: JHorne References: <200603251833.k2PIXJnY098826@zeus.int.dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <200603251833.k2PIXJnY098826@zeus.int.dfwlp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB external drive size limitations? 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: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:53:26 -0000 I faced the exact same problem recently with my 250GB iOmega external harddisk with a single FAT32 partition which I needed mounted on my FreeBSD 6.0 Release system. I needed this to be mounted "rw", so the MSDOSFS_LARGE option was no help. After some cajoling, iomega folks confirmed that partitioning the disk into multiple partitions should present no issues (although for some reason best known to themselves, on their support website they explicitly discourage users doing this). To cut the long story short, I chose to partition the 256GB disk into 2 128GB FAT32 partitions. Both the partitions show up (as /dev/da*) and mount "rw" nicely on FreeBSD (and also on Windoze as usual). To be on the safe side, I moved the data back and forth between my fixed harddisks and the external disk before and after repartitioning the external HDD, but iomega said that using content-preserving repartitioning software such as partitionmagic should be possible to use without any issues on their disk. Chandan JHorne wrote: >Well im fairly certain that my filesystem has less than a million files, its >mostly just large .iso files from my ftp server. I can defiantly quickly >check it out against a windows computer before I plug it back in the next >time im at my colo. > >