Re: disk too big to mount
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? The mailing list archives are your friend. I checked the archives and found that you have to recompile your kernel with: option MSDOSFS_LARGE If you do not know how to do that, I would suggest reading up on how to build a new kernel: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk too big to mount
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk too big to mount
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk too big to mount
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 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can add large msdosfs support into your kernel by adding options MSDOSFS_LARGE to your kernel configuration. -Reid ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk too big to mount
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 to mention the fact that you cannot create files larger than 4GB on it. Andreas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk too big to mount
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk too big to mount
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk too big to mount
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 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. 1. How did you upgrade your ports tree? 2. How did you recompile the kernel? 3. What does uname -a report? 4. what is the output of ifconfig -a? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk too big to mount
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 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. 1. How did you upgrade your ports tree? 2. How did you recompile the kernel? 3. What does uname -a report? 4. what is the output of ifconfig -a? Please change the subject name if your query differs from the original question. Thanks, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk too big to mount
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 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 If by PowerPC you mean MacOSX, it supports UFS formatting as well as MSDOSFS formatting. Some food for thought.. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk too big to mount
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 error: mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry Is there a solution to this? Thanks. I'm certainly not an expert, but Google your error message, and you will find that you need to work some magic with your kernal to access a fat32 partition bigger than 128GB. Ray ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk too big to mount
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 there is a way to convert from one FS to another.. I'm only using 170GB of the 400GB hdd, I tried to put the hdd on my windows machine and run Partition Magic on it to resize the partition, then create a unix partition and move the files. but aparently PM only supports hdd of 300GB and smaller so I can't resize it. On 5/20/07, Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 error: mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry Is there a solution to this? Thanks. I'm certainly not an expert, but Google your error message, and you will find that you need to work some magic with your kernal to access a fat32 partition bigger than 128GB. Ray ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
