On March 5, 2009, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Thursday, March 05, 2009 a las 10:48:52AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar > to end this threat, I did: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=64k count=1 > # newfs_msdos /dev/da0 > # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt > # time cat file file file > /mnt/big > cat: stdout: File too large > 0.276u 19.421s 14:36.63 2.2% 11+1180k 33887+65536io 0pf+0w > > # df -kh /mnt > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0 7.5G 4.0G 3.5G 53% /mnt > > i.e. it writes the maximal file size of 4G in FAT32 and 3.5G are left as > free;
Seems to work as it should. The maximum allowed file size on a FAT32 file system is 4GB (-1 byte). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT32 Cheers, -- Norbert Papke. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
