Understood, and I have successfully formatted a FAT32 1Tb drive, so I know it is supported on some systems. The question is, does the Slug care about the partition size?
Another possibility: does unslung 6.10 care about the sector size with which I formatted the FAT32 1Tb drive?
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Paul Hutchinson <paullhutchinson@yahoo.com > wrote:
"FAT32 supports drives up to 2 terabytes in size."
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nslu2-linux@yahoogroups. On Behalf Of M.J. Johnsoncom
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 9:22 PM
>
> Anyone? Largest supported FAT32 partition size? I'd
> rather get a definitive answer before I begin re-partitioning
> my 1Tb drive...
http://support.microsoft. com/kb/310525
Paul Hutch
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:25 PM, M.J. Johnson
> <threeeyedtoad@gmail.com > wrote:
>
>
> I've recently upgraded a WD MyBook 500Gb to a MyBook
> 1Tb drive. They're both formatted FAT32, with a single
> partition. I'm running unslung 6.10 on a 1Gb USB thumb drive
> in the Disk 2 slot, and so I shut down my working
> configuration (with the 500Gb drive), unplugged the old drive
> from the Disk 1 slot, and plugged the 1Tb drive in.
> Everything seems to start up fine, and when I navigate to the
> web configuration page, I see that my NSLU2 is unslung.
> However, the UI indicates the 1Tb drive is unformatted. When
> I SSH into the Slug, no device appears at /share/hdd/data.
>
> Is there a limit to the FAT32 partition size that
> unslung will support? What am I doing wrong that is causing
> the new 1Tb drive not to appear? It's been a while since I
> dropped a new HD into my configuration.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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