disk too big to mount

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Mon, 21 May 2007, Yanko Sanchez wrote:

> because when the hdd was first formated it was inside of a PowerPC and
> we knew that it was going to be on a server but we didn't know of what
> kind so we just formated FAT32. I don't really care what the fomrmat
> it is, if I could switch it to UFS I'd do it, but I need a hdd as big
> as that one to copy the files and then be able to reformat with a new
> FS.
>
> On 5/21/07, Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>> Duane Hill wrote:
>> > Disreguard my previous response. I didn't see your next response to Ray.
>> > Sorry.
>> >
>> > 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?
>> >> Thanks.
>> 
>> Why on earth would you want to create a 400GB MSDOSFS formatted disk?
>> MSDOSFS was quick but offered no protection against power outages or
>> incomplete writes, and was horrible in terms of disk fragmentation..
>> 
>> If you really want MSDOSFS for whatever reason, just break up the disk
>> into smaller chunks partition-wise (IIRC 100GB chunks are fine).
>> 
>> -Garrett

If by PowerPC you mean MacOSX, it supports UFS formatting as well as MSDOSFS formatting.

Some food for thought..

-Garrett