USB external drive size limitations?

[Fabian Keil]

"Jonathan Horne" <freebsd at dfwlp.com> wrote:

> Last night I plugged in a 300GB Maxtor USB drive into my FreeBSD 6.0
> server (with a fat filesystem), and it told me it was too big!!

> Haha, its full of my backups from my previous operating system
> (fedora) and now im going to have a fun time getting those files onto
> my new FreeBSD server!  Can someone recommend a course of action for
> me here?  Google isn't really turning up anything interesting
> relating to size of external drives.
 
Do you already have "options MSDOSFS_LARGE" in your kernel?

Fabian
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