Re: disk too big to mount

2007-05-21 Thread Duane Hill
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:

Re: disk too big to mount

2007-05-21 Thread Duane Hill
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

Re: disk too big to mount

2007-05-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
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

Re: disk too big to mount

2007-05-21 Thread 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

Re: disk too big to mount

2007-05-21 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Mon, 21 May 2007 17:12:52 +0200, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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.. Not

Re: disk too big to mount

2007-05-21 Thread Yanko Sanchez
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

Re: disk too big to mount

2007-05-21 Thread 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

Re: disk too big to mount

2007-05-21 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Yanko Sanchez on 05/21/07 14:03 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

Re: disk too big to mount

2007-05-21 Thread youshi10
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Reid Linnemann wrote: Written by Yanko Sanchez on 05/21/07 14:03 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

Re: disk too big to mount

2007-05-21 Thread youshi10
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Yanko Sanchez 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

Re: disk too big to mount

2007-05-20 Thread Ray
On Sunday 20 May 2007 7:04 pm, 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

Re: disk too big to mount

2007-05-20 Thread Yanko Sanchez
yeah, I found the option I think it is: MSDOSFS_LARGE I read that it isn't recommended, so im trying to convert it to another FS so that I don't have to use that option. The problem is that I think im gonna need another HDD to move the files too while I change the FS on the one I have... unless