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Date:      Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:38:40 +0200
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        yuri@rawbw.com
Cc:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to create NTFS  file system from FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20090410213840.6dbbac37.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <49DF9EF9.6050809@rawbw.com>
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On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:33:13 -0700, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately FAT32 has a file size limit 2^32-1 bytes (~4GB)
> And I talk about HD 1TB and files might me larger.

The easiest way would be to format it inside a "Windows" PC
that is NTFS capable. But I think your problem is that you
don't have such a PC at hand...

Maybe a (very overcomplicated) solution is to (install and
then) run some kind of "Windows" in a VM and format the disk
from there...



-- 
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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