Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:09:45 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive? Message-ID: <476015D9.6070604@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <47600343.2000300@studsvik.com> References: <475F1727.8050501@studsvik.com> <20071212111050.GA4575@basement.net> <47600343.2000300@studsvik.com>
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Patrick Baldwin wrote: > Trix Farrar wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:03:03PM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: >>> Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a >>> FreeBSD 6.2 system. This seemed like it should be relatively simple, >>> but: > mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry > mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry I don't know how it is now but there used to be an upper limit on FAT32 filesystem size in FreeBSD, 128gb I believe. You could get round it by recompiling your kernel with MSDOSFS_LARGE but there were some limitations on it's use. I'm sure google would find further info. Chris > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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