Re: Mounting very large partions

From: Vladimir V Egorin (_at_math.uic.edu)
Date: 10/23/03 

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:21:51 +0000 (UTC)

In article <Xns941CDDA308CE7zaphodbeeblebrox@153.19.0.141>, Mr wrote:
> Vladimir V Egorin <"Vladimir V. Egorin"@math.uic.edu> wrote in
> news:slrnbpdn06.o59.VladimirV.Egorin@kot.podval.edu:
>
>> In article <Xns941CD929A5352zaphodbeeblebrox@153.19.0.141>, Mr wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is there a limit to the size of a FAT32 partition Free
>>> (5.1-RELEASE) can
>>> mount? I'm trying to mount such a partition and no can do. It's 156
>>> GB, and I'm trying:
>>>
>>>
>>> mount_msdosfs /dev/ad1s1 /mnt/dos
>>>
>>>
>>> and I get an "/dev/ad1s1: Invalid argument" error message. This is
>>> strange, because the exact same partition (/dev/ad1s1) was smaller
>>> until just today and I could mount it no problem. So is there
>>> something I need to do to be able to mount this partition (some magic
>>> kernel thingy, perhaps), or is it just a limitation of mount?
>>>
>> Had the same problem after resizing partitions with partitionmagick.
>> I had to rewrite the slices onto the disk (using /stand/sysinstall)
>> to be able to mount the dos partition again.
>
>
> I don't get it. Won't that format my existing Free partitions?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Bernard

Bernard,
most probably not. I've simply started sysinstall, went to the
index --> fdisk menu, and hit "W" from there. After that
everything worked perfectly. From what I understand, this
simply writes slices (=dos partitions) table and doesn't format
anything.
But be careful and don't shoot me if you decide to try this out
and it destroys your data :-) 

-- 
Vladimir

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