Difficulty getting a large disk mounted

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 09:38 -0500, mconsidine at netreach.net wrote:

> 
> Sorry for creating any confusion.
> 
> The drive has data on it that I want to move over to the FC3
> system already installed.  The data is in a Windows
> filesystem
> structure and I don't want to have to put it into another
> system, boot it, hook it up to the LAN, etc.  I just want to
> get the existing FC3 system to recognize it so that I can
> pull
> the large files off that I need.  Once that is accomplished,
> repartitioning it using and ext2 or ext3 filesystem would be
> perfectly fine.
> 
> Imagine the situation as this : you've got a perfectly well-
> running FC3 installation.  Now you need more diskspace. 
> Someone
> hands you a harddisk that had Win98 and it's filestructure
> on
> it.  The disk was formatted (apparently) using EZ-Drive. 
> You
> are welcome to reformat the disk, but only after copying a
> number of files over to the FC3 installation.
> 
> That's as clear as I can make the situation.
> 
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going back to what I said in reply to the first post - I have never been
able to format a vfat partition larger than 32 Gigabytes with Linux. By
extrapolation, I might figure that I would have a problem mounting a
vfat partition that is larger than 32 Gigabytes with Linux. 

Since it was Windows 98 and Windows 98 doesn't support NTFS, it has to
be vfat (Fat32). It is larger than 32 Gigabytes. This would seem to be
your issue.

Unless someone else knows how to mount a vfat volume greater than 32
Gigabytes on Linux, I would suggest that your only recourse would be to
put this drive into a computer running Windows and get your files off.
Then you can partition/reformat as you see fit

Craig