Re: FAT32 support on freebsd

On Sun, Oct 20, 2024 at 08:57:13PM +0200, Stefan Esser wrote:
> Am 20.10.24 um 20:07 schrieb Andreas Hecht:
> > My FAT32 formatted portable SSD "Western Digital My Passport 25F3" does not
> > seem to be supported by FreeBSD. Mounting the drive works fine but I can not
> > access the data stored within it:
> > 
> > # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
> > # cd /mnt
> > # ls -al
> > total 0
> > 
> > The 'ls -al' above should show a folder named 'data' stored in the
> > top level diretory of the drive. The folder does not show up but during
> > execution of 'ls -al' the following kernel message appears:
> > 
> > getblkx: maxsize(66560) > maxbcachebuf(65536)
> > 
> You can mount your FAT32 file system if you add the following to your
> loader configuration file /boot/loader.conf:
> 
> vfs.maxbcachebuf=131072

This works perfectly.
Thanks for the quick response!

-Andreas