Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:22:37 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD? Message-ID: <b79ecaef0904111722g49f252baja790f2c670bc89b2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49E07EB1.8090701@janh.de> References: <49DFDD0B.9040602@janh.de> <b79ecaef0904110355q57e14917s61514b39fb97ece1@mail.gmail.com> <49E07EB1.8090701@janh.de>
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2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de>: > Chris Rees wrote: >> >> 2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de>: >>> >>> Yuri wrote: >>>> >>>> I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things >>> >>> mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs should do it. >>> >> >> Yuri had already written ONE LINE below your quote: >> >>> I tried to use mkntfs from ports/ntfsprogs but it didn't finish after an >>> extremely long time, > 24hrs. > > Yes, sorry, I totally failed to make my point, since I scrapped that line > and forgot about it writing the mail. (The important part was in the > parenthesis you removed.) > > My point is that I had problems with ntfsresize from ntfsprogs-2.0.0 not > working, while ntfsresize from ntfsprogs-1.13.1 was doing just fine. (I hit > that twice -- on different computers.) > > Thus, I would suggest to try mkntfs from ntfsprogs-1.13.1, if mkntfs from > ntfsprogs-2.0.0 fails. > > If the older mkntfs works, it would be another reason to revive the old > port. > > ntfsprogs-2.0.0 was criticized, for example in the thread ending with this > posting: > http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-May/msg02306.html > > A developer from ntfs-3g that formerly worked on ntfsprogs recommends to use > the older version: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#ntfsprogs > > I do not really know who is right, but ntfs-3g is actively developed while > ntfsprogs is not, other people seem to trust ntfs-3g more than the newer > version of ntfsprogs, and the arguments of the ntfs-3g developer sound > reasonable. > > I wrote about it last year (before I actually hit problems): > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-August/050157.html > > The reply was that there are no new problems known with the 2.0.0 version: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2008-August/050406.html > > I would like to have ntfsprogs-1.13.1 back -- as ports/ntfsprogs1 or by > reverting ports/ntfsprogs. Thus, Yuri, please try and report back. > > Cheers, > Jan Henrik > Hah, sorry for the vicious reply from me. Don't take it personally, I just snapped this time at reading what looked like a dupe >< I promise I'll lay off the coffee for a bit. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
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