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Date:      Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:52:30 +0100
From:      Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de>
To:        "Jonathan Horne" <freebsd@dfwlp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB external drive size limitations?
Message-ID:  <20060325185230.42041c9e@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <200603251717.k2PHHvoV097949@zeus.int.dfwlp.com>
References:  <200603251717.k2PHHvoV097949@zeus.int.dfwlp.com>

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"Jonathan Horne" <freebsd@dfwlp.com> wrote:

> Last night I plugged in a 300GB Maxtor USB drive into my FreeBSD 6.0
> server (with a fat filesystem), and it told me it was too big!!

> Haha, its full of my backups from my previous operating system
> (fedora) and now im going to have a fun time getting those files onto
> my new FreeBSD server!  Can someone recommend a course of action for
> me here?  Google isn't really turning up anything interesting
> relating to size of external drives.
=20
Do you already have "options MSDOSFS_LARGE" in your kernel?

Fabian
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http://www.fabiankeil.de/

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