disk too big to mount

[Duane Hill]

On Sun, 20 May 2007, 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?

The mailing list archives are your friend. I checked the archives and 
found that you have to recompile your kernel with:

option MSDOSFS_LARGE

If you do not know how to do that, I would suggest reading up on how to 
build a new kernel:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html