mount_msdosfs

[Darksidex]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:19:38 -0500, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
<kdk at daleco.biz> wrote:
> Darksidex wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >Hello list,
> >
> >I'm trying to mount a HD that is fat32 formated. I try:
> >#mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1(yes, usb) /mnt
> >but it fails.
> >
> >I think it fails because the disk capacity is near 200GB
> >
> >Is there something I can do?
> >Thanks in advantage, and I sorry for my bad english.
> >
> >
> 
> According to:
> 
>      http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/todo.html
> 
> msdosfs work from OpenDarwin has been merged back
> into FreeBSD.  This might address the "too large" issue,
> but I don't know, being just a newbie myself.
> 
> So, it'd be either update to the latest release candidate
> for 5.3, or attempt to grab just the msdosfs stuff from
> the CVS repo and build that part of the tree against
> your current installation.  ***I have no idea whether
> this would work or not, and strongly advise you not
> to do it unless you can get confirmation from an expert,
> perferably a FreeBSD committer, or you like to fix
> broken installations ....***
> 
> KDK
> 

Ok, I will try to update to 5.3. If it doesn't work, I think I will
have to create 2 partitions.