[BUGS] mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry

[leon zadorin]

On 3/15/08, Jerahmy Pocott <quakenet1 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> I'm getting this "mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry" trying to mount
> a 1TB drive.. It's divided in half (490gb x 2 partitions) using fat32
> file system, I think maybe the error is from the sectors being 512
> bytes.. But I'm not sure? There is nothing in the man page about an
> upper limit to sector or disk size for mount_msdosfs.. Is there a limit?

I don't personally use FreeBSD, but see:
http://desktopbsd.net/pipermail/general/2006-April/000072.html

from the above:
"
my FreeBSD 6.0 system did
not see the 300GB volume until i recompiled a new kernel with
MSDOSFS_LARGE enabled
"

Of course - my apologies if the latest FreeBSD has it enabled by
default... or if it has been moved to 'runtime command line option' (I
believe someone made this request a while ago:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2006-December/021726.html
)...