big fat32 usb drives in gnome

[pacija]

Hi all,

i have troubles with autmounting of my fat32 formatted 240Gb usb drive in gnome 2.22 on 7.1-RELEASE. Smaller flash drives (4Gb)automount fine, as well as big drives formated with ffs. However, i use this big drive as my music library which needs to be accessible from both unix and windoze machines.

I did all the troubleshooting steps from hal faq, and the problem appears to be in mount_msdosfs, which requires 'large' option. I tried to add it through gconf to /system/storage/default_options/vfat but problem just gets wierder. Gnome throws load of errors and finally mounts volume. However it does not appear in /media/.hal-mtab, and therefore it is not possible to unmount it through gnome-mount. If i unmount it manually with umount it remounts automatically, throws loads of errors and we go all over again.

Any help would be appretiated...

 

[pacija]

Sorry, for the fuss. It appears that problem was with badly formatted disk.

I deleted partition with help of sysinstall, made a new one also in sysinstall, then issued newfs_msdos -F 32 -L MYLABEL, and after a reboot everything worked fine.

So it seems that big fat32 usb drives in gnome can be mounted without problems after adding 'large' option to /system/storage/default_options/vfat in gconf.