Buffalo Firewire 1TB HD

[Matthew Pherigo]

Hey,

FAT32 can't handle files over 4 GB. What are the other computers that you want to connect to? If your concern is compatibility with Windows, you may have to format with NTFS to not be hit by stupid filesystem limits.

Also, remember that if you aren't planning to use the device in non-BSD systems anytime soon, and you're only formatting it like that 'just in case', remember that there are FUSE drivers for everything (ZFS on Windows? Sure!), which means any operating system can read your chosen filesystem if you can install FUSE. So, for example, if the drive would only ever be plugged into a non-BSD computer in the case of some tech disaster needing recovery of the files, the many benefits of a UFS/ZFS filesystem far outweighs the negatives of needing a FUSE translation layer. :)

--Matt

> On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:49 AM, Ajtim <lumiwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Friday 28 March 2014 08:13:10 Warren Block wrote:
>>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2014, Ajtim wrote:
>>>> On Friday 28 March 2014 07:31:58 Warren Block wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 28 Mar 2014, Ajtim wrote:
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>> 
>>>>> My system is FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE (amd64) installed on iMac. I have 1TB
>>>>> external firewire HD which I formated on OS X:
>>>>> 250GB for OS X and the rest (750GB) is formated MS DOS FAT (before I had
>>>>> formate ext FAT).
>>>>> In /boot/loader.conf I have:
>>>>> Sbp_load="YES"
>>>>> 
>>>>> When I turn HD on I got in /var/messages:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Kernel: da1 at sbp0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
>>>>> kernel: da1: <BUFFALO HDD 0110> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device
>>>>> kernel: da1: Serial Number
>>>>> kernel: da1: 50.000MB/s transfers
>>>>> kernel: da1: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 121601C)
>>>>> kernel: da1: quirks=0x2<NO_6_BYTE>
>>>>> kernel: GEOM: da1: enabling Boot Camp
>>>>> 
>>>>> Than I mount:
>>>>> Mount -t msdosfs /dev/da1p1 /mnt
>>>> 
>>>> '-o large' is needed to support larger than 128G FAT filesystems.  In
>>>> fact, I thought it would complain otherwise, but evidently not.
>>> 
>>> I was to fast. It doesn't work.
>> 
>> What happens?
> 
> It is the same problem.
> 
> 
> mount -t msdosfs -o large /dev/da1p1 /mnt
> 
> than cp bla.bla /mnt
> 
> 
> cp: /mnt/bla.bla: No space left on device
> 
> A file is long 495044140 and it copied just 205520896
> 
> 
> Do I need to rebuild a kernet with optins MSDOS_LARGE?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> -- 
> ajtiM
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