From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 12:31:29 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 98CD175B for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2015 12:31:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm15-vm1.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com (nm15-vm1.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com [216.39.63.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 639995FD for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2015 12:31:28 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bellsouth.net; s=s2048; t=1422966545; bh=fEr3djpEH5Z6HqZ2onLR3zz2sVhPEospnuSy31RUwPs=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:From:Subject; b=XNDPqVIAyB/vM8jhMfWXsJ7qMRwVwszFnii5f84lBxVp1bYEyC0KvrelUAJ83WTXhCDdIebu/TgiNb3XpVZ95Mm/mEz6q64hb51nbEUEGO3nVBJCfkI/5zeKOVeV8jCLRUvpR6/04+PBIIertzP7xFcSN8nm5lLCM/ktMQ1R7uEFxSa9GnepR+/Md7LHM9/gHjfVXXh26MDFrvBm6qJNRoD7hiRMtSLTLWzNYmq6iU5e6mjcReGWgllde+CfVW8173nG5JwSfop0xskAGRfVAbLs88UK1bMMQDLBjL4wbr9QvBrbVACnwjvxwWkiipjEj4pTuwfLxgDySvkIvVz3Tw== Received: from [216.39.60.166] by nm15.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Feb 2015 12:29:05 -0000 Received: from [98.138.104.97] by tm2.access.bullet.mail.gq1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Feb 2015 12:29:05 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp117.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 03 Feb 2015 12:29:04 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 901212.67634.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Message-ID: <901212.67634.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 12:29:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: 7QyGb0cVM1mSWaL1bpxVqIWnThQvLoVIFmw5t_M26SKVlez SFjRMSQ1C3.YzwQBCZqxVdYrW7JeXIp4j3s.4boxzuKI9adXfSTmLf6Z.x8B WItmCGj4HAJGnmJETieFv8PueLj68En.KhWXUnikUrQMiC7jZxICa6HRRd1T 9OgZAlJRnMS2Q1_kXuuQLwNetQMRBzthZm3spBsKIBucA8e2ih5UQHZ267Bm Uv3Xouu.He6WoUMreIg3ZUfcVIivwtXmCrGB.mLy1EU5IcGL.EQOO5cty6.T 3LrAT2IR9g.zi56tLIfszBjKTBHXE.Xr45TRWU.0gc6S.iyv1dhYAIJieWJy Sj9zuUtjr_MiFqggEtt4DTjpcIaRPXa5rPcsjGU9CsYqMlFne10h7Xq.Xe2B 9foONhRz5Wm5inj1tNFP9HE2WrKKdAk_jsdKCMvdkaS55uDvF7MsVIOQCP69 Dqp9zQVAC5ZvMkrk5tTxetMCNNS9x8NmiiTmr8KnOn11Syvh0XKrT4pCShoe nd1XjpPwVQEUq.xqZFAnmuzEE4bxyORaJqbl4liiWYUYwuau9eumsDcHjL5c - X-Yahoo-SMTP: Kz_aW1.swBBYof3zAD7.RWzXz9ZAQVDMml1VADsbgPT4Kq79LC0- From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: How to use mkntfs, I get "not a block device" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:31:29 -0000 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! This doesn't happen with filesystems supported by the base system (UFS, FAT32). I was able to mount an NTFS partition read-write after "kldload fuse", so I did "kldload fuse" here, but that didn't work for mkntfs. I noticed that typing mount by itself showed the mounted NTFS partition as /dev/fuse, but for mkntfs, I don't have anything mounted. I believe one can only mount an already-existing filesystem, so what to do for mkntfs? As I type this message, something strange has happened: key with apostrophe (unshifted) and double quotes (upshift) has gone dead, don't know if the keyboard (PS/2, dating to July 2001), or if some quirk has happened with this FreeBSD-current amd64 system, will try rebooting into FreeDOS or NetBSD, or even starting X. uname -a shows FreeBSD amelia 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #3 r278021: Mon Feb 2 04:18:13 UTC 2015 root@amelia:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDY11NC amd64 I create the apostrophe and double quote by the old trick Alt-039 and Alt-034. If necessary, I have USB keyboard to switch to on reboot. Tom