> On 4 Feb 2015, at 09:03, O'Connor, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 3 Feb 2015, at 22:59, Thomas Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:

>> 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!

> 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.

> I filed https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197301 which fixes 
> it.

> Daniel O'Connor

Should I wait for the bug fix to show in sysutils/fusefs-ntfs, or should I just 
do
mkntfs -F /dev/gpt/SeaExp1-03 ? 
after kldload fuse .

I thought I'd seen error messages referring to block devices, or "not a block 
device" in FreeBSD and NetBSD before.

Tom

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