Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 17:54:05 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: "O'Connor, Daniel" <darius@dons.net.au> Cc: Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to use mkntfs, I get "not a block device" Message-ID: <CAN6yY1swpX7t%2BGfROd%2B82OrN1vUqcbmp5011CcALsCXxP0ErRg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <FFFC554B-0ED3-4B51-867F-82F087FF94EC@dons.net.au> References: <859719.90543.bm@smtp118.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <FFFC554B-0ED3-4B51-867F-82F087FF94EC@dons.net.au>
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On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 1:39 PM, O'Connor, Daniel <darius@dons.net.au> wrote:
>
> > On 6 Feb 2015, at 06:03, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > In running
> > mkntfs -F /dev/gpt/SeaExp1-03
> >
> > I got (do I need to be concerned?)
> >
> > root@amelia:/usr/ports # mkntfs -F /dev/gpt/SeaExp1-03
> > /dev/gpt/SeaExp1-03 is not a block device.
> > mkntfs forced anyway.
> > The partition start sector was not specified for /dev/gpt/SeaExp1-03 and
> it could not be obtained automatically. It has been set to 0.
> > The number of sectors per track was not specified for
> /dev/gpt/SeaExp1-03 and it could not be obtained automatically. It has
> been set to 0.
> > The number of heads was not specified for /dev/gpt/SeaExp1-03 and it
> could not be obtained automatically. It has been set to 0.
> > Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes.
> > To boot from a device, Windows needs the 'partition start sector', the
> 'sectors per track' and the 'number of heads' to be set.
> > Windows will not be able to boot from this device.
> > Initializing device with zeroes: 0%
> > 100% - Done.
> > Creating NTFS volume structures.
> > mkntfs completed successfully. Have a nice day.
> > root@amelia:/usr/ports #
>
> So long as you don't want to do boot Windows from it, it should be fine.
>
> I imagine the port could be fixed to fetch those but I guess no one has
> bothered.
>
> > It took many hours, partition size was 500 GB, I let it run while I was
> in bed.
>
> I forgot - it does a full format (i.e. zeroes every sector) by default -
> if you pass -f it will do a quick format instead (see the man page)
>
> --
> Daniel O'Connor
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
> -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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>
>
I might also suggest an init job to unmount all fusefs file systems at
shutdown. It appears that the fuse daemon may exist before volumes are
unmounted. I was having to do a disk repair fairly often to fix issues with
both NTFS and ExFAT volumes after updating them and shutting down the
system with them still mounted.
I added the following init script to /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Since then, I
have not had a corruption of an NTFS system. I am not currently using ExFAT.
#!/bin/sh
#
# PROVIDE: unmount-fuse
# REQUIRE: DAEMON
# BEFORE: LOGIN
# KEYWORD: shutdown nostart
. /etc/rc.subr
name="unmount-fuse"
start_cmd=":"
stop_cmd="fuse_stop"
fuse_stop()
{
local err fusefs
# unmount fuse filesystems
err=0
echo -n 'Unmounting all fusefs filesystems...'
for fs in `df | grep ^/dev/fuse | cut -f6 -w` ; do
echo -n " $fs"
umount $fs
done
echo ""
}
load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command "$1"
--
Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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