This has the disadvantage that automounter is not taking care of the mounting and dismounting, when I'm done, I will want to remove the mount directory and such. Which worked, and explains why I couldn't get Disk Utility to mount the volume: the msdos filesystem kernel module was not loaded. But when transferring files to a USB device with a FAT32 or FAT16 file system.
#Too large for the volumes format windows#
Most of the Windows systems use NTFS storage. Kextload: /System/Library/Extensions/msdosfs.kext loaded successfully Format Storage to NTFS Using Disk Management. $ sudo mount_msdos /dev/disk1s7 Desktop/pcdisk/ Mount_msdos: msdos filesystem is not available You must be running as root to load modules into the kernel $ mount_msdos /dev/disk1s7 Desktop/pcdisk/ Also, notice that you can use disk utility to partition the disk, and only newfs the partition you want (you don't have to make the entire disk fat32, I like to have an HFS+ partition as well).Īlso, I couldn't get the partition to mount following the instructions. % man fdisk % fdisk -e /dev/rdisk4fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directoryEnter 'help' for informationfdisk: 1> auto dosfdisk:*1> writeWriting MBR at offset 0.fdisk: 1> quit % newfs_msdos -F 32 -v "MUSIC1" /dev/rdisk4s1/dev/rdisk4s1: 156263232 sectors in 2441613 FAT32 clusters (32768 bytes/cluster)bps=512 spc=64 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf0 spt=32 hds=255 hid=0 bsec=156301425 bspf=19076 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=6 If it isn't, close and reopen Disk Utility, select "MyVolumeName" and choose File -> Mount."Here's a transcript (line breaks added for narrower display) to show how I formatted an 80GB external firewire drive. Type newfs_msdos -F 32 -v "MyVolumeName" /dev/rdisk#s1, where # is the disk number you got in step one. Finally, type write and then quit to save the new partition table.
Now type auto dos to create one big FAT32 partition. Open Terminal and type fdisk -e /dev/rdisk#, where # is the disk number you got from step one. You're looking for the "Disk Identifier," which should be something like disk1, disk2, disk3 etc. Find the disk in the list that you want to format, control-click and select "Information".
#Too large for the volumes format mac os#
Today I've found a way to do the same on Mac OS X. Linux will create very large FAT32 partitions (if you have Linux at your disposal). Windows XP will create a FAT32 partition no greater than 32GB. For external drives you want to share between Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, they must be in FAT32 format.