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

[Trevor Roydhouse]

Jerahmy Pocott 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?

FAT32 File System Cluster Sizes

Partition Size			Cluster Size
0 MB - less than 260 MB 	512 bytes
260 MB - 8 GB 			4,096 bytes
8 GB - 16 GB 			8,192 bytes
16 GB - 32 GB 			16,384 bytes
32 GB - 2 TB 			32,768 bytes

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BJuris, LLB, LLM (UNSW)
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