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Date:      Thu, 5 Feb 2015 13:51:30 +1030
From:      "O'Connor, Daniel" <darius@dons.net.au>
To:        Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to use mkntfs, I get "not a block device"
Message-ID:  <EC6E96DA-74F6-43C0-BD44-28C21249954E@dons.net.au>
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> On 4 Feb 2015, at 20:28, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> =
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 :)

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Daniel O'Connor
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are so many of them to choose from."
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