Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 13:31:51 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: cadu aranha <oxyopes@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting an external Hard Drive Message-ID: <20070507183151.GG59486@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <98aa46640705071055w25bdd02el7b2478caeedf6edf@mail.gmail.com> References: <98aa46640705071055w25bdd02el7b2478caeedf6edf@mail.gmail.com>
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cadu aranha wrote: > Hello people, > i have a USB external HD with FAT32 fs. > Today i connected it to my FBSD and > got the following mesg entry: > > da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: <SAMSUNG SP2514N 0000> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device > da0: 1.000MB/s transfers > da0: 238475MB (488397168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 30401C) > > # ls /dev/da0* > /dev/da0 /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s2 /dev/da0s5 > > mount_ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt > #% ok, it worked. Now > # mount_ntfs /dev/da0s2 /mnt2 > mount_ntfs: /dev/da0s2: Invalid argument > > #% of course, it is a FAT32 filesystem. Then ... > # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s2 /mnt2 > mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s2: Invalid argument > # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s5 /mnt2 > mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s5: Invalid argument > # dmesg > mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry > > # fsck_msdosfs /dev/da0s2 > ** /dev/da0s2 > Invalid signature in fsinfo blockfix? [yn] y > Floating exception (core dumped) > > I do not know what else could i do. > It was a 250G HG with NTFS. The whole could be mounted > by mount_ntfs. Then i split it in one NTFS and one FAT32 > using Partition magic. Now i can mount the former and the > latter not. On windows there is no problem in mounting. > > Any tip? > Thanks in advance ... > _______________________________________________ > 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" > You didn't say how large your fat 32 filesystem ended up, but if it's larger than a certain size (128 gigs I think?) you need to recompile your kernel with: options MSDOSFS_LARGE to access it. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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