Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 09:03:11 +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: <43567E46-07C9-4067-B9A7-18080B93B64B@dons.net.au> In-Reply-To: <901212.67634.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <901212.67634.bm@smtp117.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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> On 3 Feb 2015, at 22:59, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> =
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
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are so many of them to choose from."
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