Re: USB external drive size limitations?

2006-03-26 Thread Chandan Haldar
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

RE: USB external drive size limitations?

2006-03-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net
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

Re: USB external drive size limitations?

2006-03-25 Thread Fabian Keil
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

Re: USB external drive size limitations?

2006-03-25 Thread Fabian Keil
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)

RE: USB external drive size limitations?

2006-03-25 Thread JHorne
12:13 PM To: Jonathan Horne Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB external drive size limitations? 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