From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 5 03:26:42 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 577ECACD for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2015 03:26:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9CE881 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2015 03:26:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ppp118-210-222-217.lns20.adl6.internode.on.net (HELO midget.dons.net.au) ([118.210.222.217]) by ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 05 Feb 2015 13:51:32 +1030 Received: from auxxoconnd1m1.dons.net.au (AUXXOCONND1M1.dons.net.au [10.0.2.104]) (authenticated bits=0) by midget.dons.net.au (8.15.1/8.14.9) with ESMTPSA id t153LUe1006082 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 5 Feb 2015 13:51:31 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2070.6\)) Subject: Re: How to use mkntfs, I get "not a block device" From: "O'Connor, Daniel" In-Reply-To: <666687.83990.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 13:51:30 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: 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> <666687.83990.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> To: Thomas Mueller X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2070.6) X-Spam-Score: -2.91 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.75 on 10.0.2.1 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org 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: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 03:26:42 -0000 > On 4 Feb 2015, at 20:28, Thomas Mueller = wrote: >> 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. >>=20 > Should I wait for the bug fix to show in sysutils/fusefs-ntfs, or = should I just do > mkntfs -F /dev/gpt/SeaExp1-03 ?=20 > after kldload fuse . Just use -F. Note that mkntfs is unrelated to fuse - you can use the NTFS tools = without touching FUSE at all - the only time FUSE is involved is when = you mount an NTFS volume. > I thought I'd seen error messages referring to block devices, or "not = a block device" in FreeBSD and NetBSD before. They were removed a while ago :) -- Daniel O'Connor "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C