Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:03:10 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jonathan Horne" <jhorne@dfwlp.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I access external USB fat32 160 GB drive? Message-ID: <57240.167.246.36.14.1155924190.squirrel@webmail.dfwlp.org> In-Reply-To: <20060818174053.67694.qmail@web27609.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20060818174053.67694.qmail@web27609.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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> Hello > > When I try to mount the drive with mount_msdos it tells me the filsystem > is to big. The drive consists av a single fat32 partition. > > Windows can access it so it must be possible in FreeBSD too. I read > about recompiling the kernel with option MSDOSFS_LARGE. But that option > seems to be gone i GENERIC now. > > Thanks > > you have to change the MSDOSFS to MSDOSFS_LARGE. i did it on one of my systems, and it works fine (however, ive heard hearsay that its not enabled by default due to stability issues when it has too may files in the filesystem). hth, jonathan
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