Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:48:40 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: "Brian M. Kincaid" <bmk0@pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: msdosfs fat32 disk size limit in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <42657CB8.6090801@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <42656B69.7070009@pacbell.net> References: <42656B69.7070009@pacbell.net>
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Brian M. Kincaid wrote: > Hello, > > Is there an upper limit to the size of a FAT32 file system in the > FreeBSD msdosfs code? > I put in an 80GB drive recently and there have been problems. There is > no problem with small FAT32 file systems on floppies or flash memory > cards. Any useful comments before I go back to the (working) 60GB > drive configuration? > > Thanks, > > Brian > IANAE, but I think there is; IIRC, though, it's 128 GB unless you have compiled "MSDOSFS_LARGE"* into your custom kernel, so I can't address your problem with an 80GB disk.... What system are you on (`uname -a`)? Kevin Kinsey *Or something like that ... check release notes on 5.3, again, that's if I recall correctly....
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