Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 09:58:38 +0000 (UTC) From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to use mkntfs, I get "not a block device" Message-ID: <666687.83990.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <901212.67634.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <43567E46-07C9-4067-B9A7-18080B93B64B@dons.net.au> <134D33C1-973F-46E8-AC09-29CAF8DB3A99@dons.net.au>
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> On 4 Feb 2015, at 09:03, O'Connor, Daniel <darius@dons.net.au> wrote: >> On 3 Feb 2015, at 22:59, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> wrote: >> I can't format a partition for NTFS with fusefs-ntfs port, using mkntfs. >> Error message is >> root@amelia:~ # mkntfs /dev/gpt/SeaExp1-03 >> /dev/gpt/SeaExp1-03 is not a block device. >> Refusing to make a filesystem here! > The port should really patch this out (IMO) - it doesn't make sense on FreeBSD since it doesn't _have_ block devices. > If you pass it the -F flag it should let your format the disk. > I filed https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197301 which fixes it. > Daniel O'Connor Should I wait for the bug fix to show in sysutils/fusefs-ntfs, or should I just do mkntfs -F /dev/gpt/SeaExp1-03 ? after kldload fuse . I thought I'd seen error messages referring to block devices, or "not a block device" in FreeBSD and NetBSD before. Tom
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