disk too big to mount

[Yanko Sanchez]

Thanks for anyone that  has helped so far, I'm a freebsd newbie coming
from linux.

So I basically re-compiled my kernel with the LARGE option on and it
seems to mount the drive fine. I encountered another problem tho.

Before I recompiled the kernel I updated the ports tree, basically cos
I just wanted to see how it was done and it seemed to be successful.
The problem is that after I recompiled the kernel a bunch of stuff
stoped working.  I have the server setup as a router and my to Network
cards isn't showing up anymore (both being the same type of cards, I
use to have rl0 and rl1) so It isn't routing anymore, and now im
getting a bunch of DHCPREQUEST messages on startup which I wasn't
getting before. And other errors saying that my network card isn't
configured. I checked /etc/rc.conf and the lines for ifconfig are
still in there...

Did I upgrade the kernel sources by doing an upgrade to the ports?
That would make sense, but what bugs me is that I copied the same
kernel config and just added the MSDOSFS_LARGE option once I booted up
I got the errors mentioned above. Shouldn't it have stayed pretty much
the same? I'm just trying to get a better understand if what happened
to that I don't make the same mistake.



On 5/21/07, Yanko Sanchez <y at rem7.cc> 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
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