disk too big to mount

[Reid Linnemann]

Written by Garrett Cooper on 05/21/07 10:12>>
> 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
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You can add large msdosfs support into your kernel by adding "options 
MSDOSFS_LARGE" to your kernel configuration.

-Reid