From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 25 18:13:43 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 CAD6816A420 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:13:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (smtprelay01.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC0A343D5A for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 18:13:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de) Received: (qmail 8189 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2006 18:13:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) ([pbs]775067@[217.50.131.101]) (envelope-sender ) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 25 Mar 2006 18:13:37 -0000 Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 19:13:21 +0100 From: Fabian Keil To: "Jonathan Horne" Message-ID: <20060325191321.1f8a3a6b@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20060325185230.42041c9e@localhost> References: <200603251717.k2PHHvoV097949@zeus.int.dfwlp.com> <20060325185230.42041c9e@localhost> 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_29GCeK.T59RS5hiszmN6pKa; 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 18:13:43 -0000 --Sig_29GCeK.T59RS5hiszmN6pKa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Fabian Keil wrote: > "Jonathan Horne" wrote: >=20 > > 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!! >=20 > > 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? Forgot to mention that it isn't perfect. I believe the limitations described in http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/relnotes-i386.html are still true: |The MSDOSFS_LARGE kernel option has been added to support FAT32 file |systems bigger than 128GB. This option is disabled by default. It uses |at least 32 bytes of kernel memory for each file on disk; furthermore |it is only safe to use in certain controlled situations, such as |read-only mount with less than 1 million files and so on. Exporting |these large file systems over NFS is not supported. Fabian --=20 http://www.fabiankeil.de/ --Sig_29GCeK.T59RS5hiszmN6pKa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEJYhNjV8GA4rMKUQRAibOAKCZa2W+Yp3E8EkyAnAzHb5FeR5siQCghdGd DPB8hm0jiBm6LGOqL5ph1/0= =1MPw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_29GCeK.T59RS5hiszmN6pKa--