From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 25 17:52:47 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 00D3816A41F for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:52:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from smtprelay03.ispgateway.de (smtprelay03.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A88343D46 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:52:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: (qmail 8311 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2006 17:52:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) ([pbs]775067@[217.50.131.101]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay03.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 25 Mar 2006 17:52:44 -0000 Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:52:30 +0100 From: Fabian Keil To: "Jonathan Horne" Message-ID: <20060325185230.42041c9e@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200603251717.k2PHHvoV097949@zeus.int.dfwlp.com> References: <200603251717.k2PHHvoV097949@zeus.int.dfwlp.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) X-PGP-KEY-URL: http://www.fabiankeil.de/gpg-keys/freebsd-listen-2006-08-19.asc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_8pXOUOojMRf1EXF7znMVuJN; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 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: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:52:47 -0000 --Sig_8pXOUOojMRf1EXF7znMVuJN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Jonathan Horne" 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 --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_8pXOUOojMRf1EXF7znMVuJN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEJYNpjV8GA4rMKUQRAuCYAJ9rCcgkOJXrNSaudq3pr29AN1+8OwCeI9Bv AG+oSdFT2MC7MYGKFHJHBfo= =Z65u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_8pXOUOojMRf1EXF7znMVuJN--