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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:29:34 -0500
From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
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Subject: Re: mountmsdosfs(): disk too big still a problem?
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Alex Teslik wrote:

>I have run into the "mountmsdosfs(); disk too big" problem while trying to
>mount a 250GB FAT32 drive. This problem is pretty well documented:
>
>http://www.atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd-stable/msg11027.html
>
>but I couldn't find any documentation regarding it being fixed when I googled
>around.
>I am running FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p5 i386. Does anyone know if this problem is
>fixed in 4.11 or 5.4?
>
>Thanks,
>Alex
>  
>


I'm thinking the answer is "no", but I've not searched
the CVS tree.

Last time I tried was about a month, maybe two months
ago on 5.3, IIRC.  FWIW, the limit is about 120GB, and,
AFAIK, the problem is known (of course) and quite possibly
is being addressed.

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.