From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 22:33:29 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9599E794 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2015 22:33:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2793B9A8 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2015 22:33:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ppp118-210-222-217.lns20.adl6.internode.on.net (HELO midget.dons.net.au) ([118.210.222.217]) by ipmail06.adl6.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 04 Feb 2015 09:03:20 +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 t13MXBpQ061874 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 4 Feb 2015 09:03:18 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Subject: Re: How to use mkntfs, I get "not a block device" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2070.6\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "O'Connor, Daniel" In-Reply-To: <901212.67634.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 09:03:11 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <43567E46-07C9-4067-B9A7-18080B93B64B@dons.net.au> References: <901212.67634.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: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 22:33:29 -0000 > On 3 Feb 2015, at 22:59, Thomas Mueller = wrote: >=20 > I can't format a partition for NTFS with fusefs-ntfs port, using = mkntfs. >=20 > Error message is >=20 > root@amelia:~ # mkntfs /dev/gpt/SeaExp1-03 = =20 > /dev/gpt/SeaExp1-03 is not a block device. = =20 > Refusing to make a filesystem here! =20 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. -- 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