mountmsdosfs(): disk too big still a problem?

Kevin Kinsey kdk at daleco.biz
Wed Jul 13 19:30:45 GMT 2005


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.


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