disk too big to mount

Ray ray at stilltech.net
Mon May 21 02:18:31 UTC 2007


On Sunday 20 May 2007 7:04 pm, Yanko Sanchez wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a 400GB seagate IDE hdd with backed up data that I need to load onto
> a machine running freebsd 6.2
>
> The drive is formated for fat32 and when I run the command:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/ad2s2 /mnt/audio/
>
> I get the following error:
>
> "mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry"
>
> Is there a solution to this?
> Thanks.
I'm certainly not an expert, but  Google your error message, and you will find 
that you need to work some magic with your kernal to access a fat32 partition 
bigger than 128GB.
Ray


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