From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 12 17:10:05 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DB1216A41A for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:10:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from smtp1.bethere.co.uk (smtp1.betherenow.co.uk [87.194.0.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49F813C455 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:10:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from [192.168.1.71] (87-194-3-32.bethere.co.uk [87.194.3.32]) by smtp1.bethere.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id D73CB98639; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:09:59 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <476015D9.6070604@onetel.com> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:09:45 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick.Baldwin@studsvik.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <475F1727.8050501@studsvik.com> <20071212111050.GA4575@basement.net> <47600343.2000300@studsvik.com> In-Reply-To: <47600343.2000300@studsvik.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive? 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: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:10:05 -0000 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" >