Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-13 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, correct me if I am wrong, but is it true that ntfsprogs is the only port that comes with formating disk into NTFS system? because days ago I also had this problem with my friend's extra USB 1T HD, I had to use my windows laptop to do the job. thanks!! TFC On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 8:22

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-13 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/13 Tsu-Fan Cheng tfch...@gmail.com: Hi,    correct me if I am wrong, but is it true that ntfsprogs is the only port that comes with formating disk into NTFS system? because days ago I also had this problem with my friend's extra USB 1T HD, I had to use my windows laptop to do the job.

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de: Yuri wrote: I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs should do it. Yuri had already written ONE LINE below your quote: I tried to use mkntfs from ports/ntfsprogs but it didn't finish

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-11 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de: Yuri wrote: I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs should do it. Yuri had already written ONE LINE below your quote: I tried to use mkntfs from ports/ntfsprogs but

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Rees
2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de: Chris Rees wrote: 2009/4/11 Jan Henrik Sylvester m...@janh.de: Yuri wrote: I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs should do it. Yuri had already written ONE LINE below your quote:

How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-10 Thread Yuri
I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things on it under Windows. I tried to use mkntfs from ports/ntfsprogs but it didn't finish after an extremely long time, 24hrs. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things on it under Windows. i would rather make FAT32 partition newfs_msdos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-10 Thread Yuri
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i would rather make FAT32 partition Unfortunately FAT32 has a file size limit 2^32-1 bytes (~4GB) And I talk about HD 1TB and files might me larger. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-10 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:33:13 -0700, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Unfortunately FAT32 has a file size limit 2^32-1 bytes (~4GB) And I talk about HD 1TB and files might me larger. The easiest way would be to format it inside a Windows PC that is NTFS capable. But I think your problem is that you

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-10 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
Yuri wrote: I need to format NTFS partition to give HD to someone to write things mkntfs from sysutils/ntfsprogs should do it. (I did use mkntfs successfully with the 1.13.1 version, but never tried with 2.0.0. ntfsresize from 2.0.0 failed for me when 1.13.1 did work.) Jan Henrik

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

2009-04-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, The easiest way would be to format it inside a Windows PC that is NTFS capable. But I think your problem is that you don't have such a PC at hand... Maybe a (very overcomplicated) solution is to (install and then) run some kind of Windows in a VM and format the disk from there... I