I faced the exact same problem recently with my 250GB iOmega external harddisk with a single FAT32 partition which I needed mounted on my FreeBSD 6.0 Release system. I needed this to be mounted "rw", so the MSDOSFS_LARGE option was no help. After some cajoling, iomega folks confirmed that partitioning the disk into multiple partitions should present no issues (although for some reason best known to themselves, on their support website they explicitly discourage users doing this).
To cut the long story short, I chose to partition the 256GB disk into 2 128GB FAT32 partitions. Both the partitions show up (as /dev/da*) and mount "rw" nicely on FreeBSD (and also on Windoze as usual). To be on the safe side, I moved the data back and forth between my fixed harddisks and the external disk before and after repartitioning the external HDD, but iomega said that using content-preserving repartitioning software such as partitionmagic should be possible to use without any issues on their disk. Chandan JHorne wrote:
Well im fairly certain that my filesystem has less than a million files, its mostly just large .iso files from my ftp server. I can defiantly quickly check it out against a windows computer before I plug it back in the next time im at my colo.
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