Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Jonathan Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
Forgot to mention that it isn't perfect. I believe the limitations described in http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/relnotes-i386.html are still true: |The MSDOSFS_LARGE kernel option has been added to support FAT32 file |systems bigger than 128GB. This option is disabled by default. It uses |at least 32 bytes of kernel memory for each file on disk; furthermore |it is only safe to use in certain controlled situations, such as |read-only mount with less than 1 million files and so on. Exporting |these large file systems over NFS is not supported. Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de/
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