Tuesday, April 3, 2007

MOre FreeBSD upgrade woes - large FAT32 partitions

After the upgrade to FreeBSD 6.2 I could no longer mount my 250G FAT32 partition? mount_msdosfs was complaining that the partition was too large. Turns out there's a kernel configuration options MSDOSFS_LARGE that needs to replace the standard MSDOSFS option in the GENERIC kernel. I guess PC-BSD had it enabled in the GENERIC kernel. So, I rebuilt the kernel....kinda wanted to stick with the GENERIC kernel since I don't want to add anything more to the plate of things I have to remember to maintain, but in the end I guess it's for the better since I was able to disable a whack of stuff in the kernel and ideally it will run quicker/smoother.

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